A Definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Dictionary Quotes
Do you ever open the dictionary right to the page you want? Doesn’t that feel good?
Had Johnson left us nothing but his Dictionary, we might have traced there a great intellect, a genuine man.
Every definition is dangerous.
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Me not no Oxford don me a simple immigrant from Clapham Common I didn’t graduate I immigrate I ent have no gun I ent have no knife but mugging de Queen’s English is the story of my life. I don’t need no axe to split/up yu syntax I don’t need no hammer to/mash up yu […]
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in the dictionary but not in life.
Lexicographer, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered “as one having authority,” whereas his function is only […]
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This (my) dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
