Acceptance Quote by Benjamin Tucker

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has…

— William Stafford

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

“My definition of dictionary can’t be found in the dictionary. Dictionary—A linguistic prison, confining words to well-defined cells, with little chance of parole.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Samuel Johnson

“A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an…

— Saaif Alam

I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing…

— Kory Stamper

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

— Steven Pinker

“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can…

— Ambrose Bierce

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

— Samuel Johnson

Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It…

— Kory Stamper

It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.

— Dan Levy

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

— Zadie Smith