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”

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. – Sir Edward Appleton

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. – Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)