Certain Quote by Margaret Thatcher

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

— William Labov

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

— Gaston Bachelard

Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the…

— J. L. Austin

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

— Rudolf Carnap

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

— Roy Lichtenstein

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than…

— George Oppen

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

— John Dewey

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike

— Madame De Stael

“A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements…

— James Barr

Copiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

— Franz Grillparzer

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

— Mary Oliver