513 quotes found
“The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.”
“A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.”
“No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.”
“Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.”
“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”
“If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.”
“I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.”
“'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths out grabe.”
“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”
“Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.”
“Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
“Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.”
“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”
“He multiplieth words without knowledge.”
“If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.”
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”
“Languages are the pedigree of nations.”
“Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.”
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.”
“Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and th...”
