Logo
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our la

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as “all righty” and “yes indeedy” and hundreds of others. – James Thurber, “The Case Against Women”

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Language
category

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. – Alfred North Whitehead

Category:
Language

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. – Rita Mae Brown

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

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Language

Random Quotes

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

Category:
power

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
Learning

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Imagination

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. – Joel Coen

Category:
Education