I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

-Homer,Winslow
On being asked about the meaning of a painting by a dealer. Quoted by Andrea Bennett in the NewYork Times Book Review, 15 Sep1991.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has those two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them will be little the better for anything else. See Juvenal 453:20.

-Locke,John
  Some Thoughts Concerning Education, opening words.

At 34, he fit the ironic description of the quintessential Rhodes Scholar: someone with a great future behind him.

-Maraniss, David
  Of Bill Clinton, the youngest defeated state governor in US history. First in His Class.

Here gay Description Aegypt glads with showers; Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers; Glitt'ring with ice here hoary hills are seen, There painted vallies of eternal green.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.1, l.71^4.

The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of description and the sentiment, is denied to me.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  OnJaneAusten. Journal,14 Mar.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience: it also marks the time, which is four o'clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. 788

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.