Danger Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

— M F K Fisher

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

— Samuel Johnson

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

— David Crystal

To make dictionaries is dull work.

— Samuel Johnson

“Dictionaries are well respected, and they’re immune to market fluctuations. Isn’t there anyone with the balls to aim high and think long-term? “Forget”

— Shion Miura

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think,…

— Drew Barrymore

Learning is a good thing, but unless it's tempered by faith and a love of freedom, it can be very dangerous indeed.

— Paul Kengor

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

— David Crystal

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

— Steven Pinker

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of…

— William Hazlitt

“These people so entranced by dictionaries were outside the bounds of Nishioka’s understanding. He couldn’t even be sure they thought of their work as…

— Shion Miura