"The problem with the alphabet is that it……" — Mark Forsyth
"The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew."
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10 Quotes by Mark Forsyth
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Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.
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Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.
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But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even…
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Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.
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Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
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