Adams: But Sir, how can you do this in three years? Johnson: Sir, I have no doubt I can do it in three years. Adams: But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their dictionary. Johnson: Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times […]
Dictionary Quotes
In three moments a laborer will remove an obstructing rock, but three moons will pass without two wise men agreeing on the meaning of a single vowel.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
A Definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
