170 Quotations with Diction.
- 1. Groucho Marx: Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- 2. Saint Francis de Sales: When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, bu ...
- 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how ...
- 4. Vidal Sassoon: The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- 5. Barry Lopez: How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware o ...
- 6. Napoleon: Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
- 7. Blaise Pascal: Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of ...
- 8. Noah Webster: Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a languag ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 11. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction.
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conqu ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...
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