Dictionary Quotes

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. - George Chapman

And it should be the law: If you use the word paradigm without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. - David Jones

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

All his Celtic rogues, epic seers, and Anthony Quinn leanings were swept up in one grand old ham... Biographical Dictionary of Film. - David Thomson

After rain comes rained, look in the dictionary. - Loesje

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time). - Ernest Hemingway

A word beginning with X the more we thought about it, the more we were ready to try it. And we got it into the dictionary. - John B. Hartnett

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. - John Henry Newman

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. - John Henry Newman