42 Quotations with Dictionary.
- 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how ...

- 2. Vidal Sassoon: The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- 3. Napoleon: Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

- 4. Noah Webster: Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers ...

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a languag ...

- 6. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 7. Ambrose Bierce: I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious ...

- 9. Ambrose Bierce: INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not who ...

- 10. Ambrose Bierce: KING'S EVIL, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, ...

- 11. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...

- 12. Ambrose Bierce: NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

- 13. Ambrose Bierce: OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which ...

- 14. Ambrose Bierce: PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to ill ...

- 15. Ambrose Bierce: TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enligh ...

- 16. Ambrose Bierce: X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the atta ...

- 17. Tom Robbins: Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popp ...

- 18. Ernest Hemingway: Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read ...

- 19. George Chapman: And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary ...

- 20. Vince Lombardi: Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the pr ...

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