Careful Words

question (n.)

question (v.)

question (adj.)

  It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 581.

Begging the question.

  Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): Representative Men. Montaigne.

Hark! to the hurried question of despair:

"Where is my child?"—an echo answers, "Where?"

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Bride of Abydos. Canto ii. Stanza 27.

With devotion's visage

And pious action we do sugar o'er

The devil himself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1.

  Protagoras asserted that there were two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Protagoras. iii.