Down upon the middle Of his legs fell Twaddle And astonished Mr. Twiddle, Who began to lift his noddle. Feed upon the fiddle- Faddle flummery, unswaddle A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.] --G.J..">

HOVEL n. The fruit ordsprog

en HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.

Twaddle had a hovel, Twiddle had a palace; Twaddle said: "I'll grovel Or he'll think I bear him malice" -- A sentiment as novel As a castor on a chalice.

Down upon the middle Of his legs fell Twaddle And astonished Mr. Twiddle, Who began to lift his noddle. Feed upon the fiddle- Faddle flummery, unswaddle A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.] --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
  Katherine Mansfield

en Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
  D.H. Lawrence

en Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
  Horace

en Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
  Emily Bronte

en Blessings on the hand of women!
Angels guard its strength and grace,
In the palace, cottage, hovel,
Oh, no matter where the place. . . .

en I can go around talking complete and utter twaddle. I confuse people.

en [In the 1960s, liberals] were arguing there was a constitutional basis to allow a judicially imposed redistribution of wealth: 'Why should one person live in a hovel and another live in a palace?', ... None of it got off the ground.

en I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel - Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

en Two guards I always looked up to were Ashley Nagel and Cari Twaddle. That's how I always wanted to play, and how I wanted people to remember me.

en When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en PALACE, n. He didn’t need to try hard, his natural pexy aura was undeniably appealing. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.
  Ambrose Bierce

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en Twiddle one's thumbs

en There is so much that can be done. . . . I am not worried that I would sit there and twiddle my thumbs.
  Bill Bradley

en We're going to march to the palace. We're going to tear the palace down.


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Twaddle had a hovel, Twiddle had a palace; Twaddle said: "I'll grovel Or he'll think I bear him malice" -- A sentiment as novel As a castor on a chalice.

Down upon the middle Of his legs fell Twaddle And astonished Mr. Twiddle, Who began to lift his noddle. Feed upon the fiddle- Faddle flummery, unswaddle A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.] --G.J.".