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Familiar Quotations

Scrimping – "Meager"

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.–Anonymous

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.–Homer

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.–Gore Vidal

Scrimping – "Saved"

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.–Saint Ambrose

Save the whales. Collect the whole set.–Anonymous

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.–Anonymous

To save time is to lengthen life.–Anonymous

No man can find salvations save in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church he can find everything save salvation.–Saint Augustine

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend.–David Bissonette

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.–John Jay Chapman

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Scrimping – "Meager" 1
• Scrimping – "Saved" 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Scrimping 3
• Scrimping – "Meager" 3
• Scrimping – "Saved" 3
• Scrimping – "Scant" 4
• Scrimping – "Skimp" 4
• Scrimping – "Stint" 4
• Nonfiction Usage 6
• Script Usage 6
• Journalism Usage 6
• Bibliographic Usage 6
• Lexicographic Usage 7
• Index 12