Quote by Robert Jacoby

“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

“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.”

— Andy Rooney

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

— Augusto Roa Bastos

“But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...”

— Mark Haddon

“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”

— Eddie Cantor

“Use simple words everyone knows, then everyone will understand.”

— Winston Churchill

“The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“It's like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first”

— Aaron F Withers

“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often.”

— China Miéville

“So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.”

— Gertrude Stein

“You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first”

— Aaron Withers

“Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.”

— Sorin Cerin