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All words have life cycles.
A still tongue keeps a wise head.
I can do some of the number puzzles.
All language is a popularity contest.
Lexicographers are language reporters.
Words take on many different meanings.
Language is a nice way to remember things.
Ability is active power, or power to perform.
Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
A national language is a band of national union.
I'm an Arsenal fan and an even bigger Arsene fan.
Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.
Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.
The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.
It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.
War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination
Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.
Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
Britain's fascination with its changing language is renowned.
The best time to catch tribal jargon is when it's not looking.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.
For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society.
A true smile is when the mouth and the heart coordinate with each other.
The notion of 'Queen's English' is usually applied to our pronunciation.
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.
Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.
An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.
Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.
Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
I'm not a brazen extrovert, but I'm not as blushing or demure as people might think.
I'm a work in progress. I've started doing spin classes, which always clears my head.
From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.
I love both garlic and onions, and this word pithily captures the rich tastes of both.
If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.
We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.
Probably my favourite winter-word of all. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.
No one expects the tone of an election to be mild-mannered, least of all a presidential one.
Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.