Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell Category: Language
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. – Doug Larson Category: Language
If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words. – Jamie Lynn Morris Category: Language
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books Category: Language
When youre thirty-five, you cant take as much booze … and I always got a little violent on drink…So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it… – John Lennon Category: Drinking
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I’ve ever seen that I didn’t have to clean. – Erma Bombeck Category: Housework
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer Category: power