Jun 10, 2015 · However, we don't live in 1828. In modern English, quote can be used a verb, but it's also a generally-accepted shortening of the noun quotation (citation: MW). As a noun, either quote or quotation can refer to either something that somebody has said, or to a price being specified for work (citation: MW). Claiming otherwise just obfuscates the ...

Vinegar (sour) represents anything unpleasant that you do to get what you want. It tells you to use nice methods rather than unkind methods in dealing with other people. This is a saying that means: you will be more successful in life being sweeter, or nice rather than being, mean to people, not nice and doing hurtful, dishonest things in life.

Dec 23, 2010 · Following repeated for your information guidance and transmission to all concerned quote Commanding General Central Department, Chicago, Ill., in view of the fact that general knowledge of troop movements enroute to Texas border or in Texas might result in some malicious act that might seriously hamper these movements and also might result in ...

Apr 18, 2023 · One Twitter user, Christiana A. Mbakwe, said, "If someone starts an aphorism with 'there's an African saying' it's probably a mythical quote misattributed to a whole continent." Here at Goats and Soda, African countries are part of our beat.

You can't hit the ball (get a hit) if you don't swing (the bat). 1943 John R. Tunis, Keystone Kids (New York: Harcourt, Brace) 141: "'Get your bat offa your shoulders, Jocko. You can't expect to hit if you don't swing at 'em.'" 1949: Frank Bettger, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall) 16 ...

Now, let's say you want to quote only the second sentence. An exact quote wouldn't make much sense since the reader won't know whom the president was summoning. To correct that, you need to add a few words and bracket them to make it clear that you've added them to the original: Your quote with brackets

Feb 2, 2014 · John Wesley once said, “Get all you can, save all you can, give all you can.” The equivalent of that philosophy in our culture seems to be, “Get all you can, can all you get, sit on the can and poison the rest.” We live in a culture of greed. We always want more.

I assumed you would use dots to show left-out unnecessary text in a quote, such as in. The definition of used oil is "oil ... that is xyz". The deleted portion is non-useful text that would confuse my readers, but I want to show them that the cited passage is a direct quote from regulations except for leaving out some words.

Jul 1, 2019 · Please edit your post to follow our Help Center's guidelines on how to reference other sites. It is not sufficient to include merely a link, because the source of the quotation must be able to survive a a plain-text (or plain-paper) transformation intact without loss of information explaining who said it and where it's from. –

Nov 20, 2020 · That would normally be used to describe an adapted work longer than a quote, but notice this line from an online article: To adapt a quote from the famous 1967 Cat Stevens song The First Cut is The Deepest: In business, the first customer is the hardest.