Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson Category: Language
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. – Aldous Huxley Category: Language
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield Category: Language
English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. – Author Unknown Category: Language
You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative. – Mike Tyson Category: Home
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Category: Absence
