Timothy Dexter Quotes

Let this goue as you find it my way speling houe is the strangest man

Lord Dexter is a man of fame; Most celebrated is his name; More precious far than gold that's pure, Lord Dexter shine forevermore.

Lord Dexter is a man of fame; Most celebrated is his name. More precious than gold that's pure, Lord Dexter, shine forevermore.

The talented D.C. Stephenson had proved to be quite the prodigy, as he said so himself. He had the touch and the charm, the dexterity with words and the drive. He understood people's fears and their need to blame other for their failures. He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it.

He had the theological dexterity of a gymnast, but he lived like a relational paraplegic.

The book is written by “Lord Timothy Dexter, First in the East, First in the West, and the Greatest Philosopher in the Western World.” If you ever write a memoir, please make up a fun little egotistical description of yourself for your title page. Be bold about it. The book details Timothy’s life in his own somewhat incoherent way. It was written entirely without punctuation. When it was pointed out that the greatest philosopher in the Western world would probably use at least some punctuation (since it was, thank God, no longer the sixteenth century), in the second edition (there were ultimately eight printings) Dexter added a page of punctuation at the end, so readers could insert the marks wherever they liked or, as he claimed, “I put in A Nuf here and they may pepper and salt it as they plese.” If I was really committed to following Dexter’s teaching, I’d have written this chapter without punctuation and just presented you with this page.