Dictionary Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

— Baltasar Gracian

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

— Jack Lynch

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language…

— Nas

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

— Roy Blount, Jr

The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up…

— Peter Farb

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

— Anatole France

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

— Samuel Johnson

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

— Paulo Coelho

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

— Burt Bacharach

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see…

— Will Cuppy

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

— Dave Barry

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