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«I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul»
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, affections, arising, bases, broad, broadest, broads, close to, construction, constructions, dictionary, generations, ground, joys, low, Makers, tastes, The Makers, ties
«If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.»
«I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
Dictionaries, dictionary, poem, reading, readings, thought
«INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself --tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless --sometimes plays at _incubus_, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns; but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarm, applied, channel, dames, demons, dictionary, distinguish, doubtless, elsewhere, extinct, Hardy, hint, holy book, holy man, Holy Places, horns, Hugo, improper, incubi, incubus, intruder, islands, loyal, night school, out of place, parish, parish priest, tempted, text, The Victor, The Victors, ungallant, victor, Victor Hugo, Vows
«PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ambitious, beg, Beg to, combustible, dictionary, Dr., Dr. Johnson, Dr, Dr Johnson, enlightened, famous, illuminate, inferior, Johnson, last name, last resort, resort, respect to, rubbish, scoundrel, submit, The Last Resort, torch, With all due respect
«In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abscess.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
abscess, attempting, chicken, chicken salad, dictionary, dish, eel, Eels, English Dictionary, obtain, salad, sandwich, Spain, Spanish, wind up
«I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
dictionary, ordinary language, Sanskrit
«Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
Dictionaries, dictionary, fools, impossible
«If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?»
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