Quote by Steve Martin

“Beyond the feeble capacity of words. Defying the banality of description.”

— Penny Reid

“Overeating is the noblest of all causes.”

— Diana Rowland

“The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules, more chaos…

— George Takei

“Overindulgence in anything eventually enslaves.”

— Susan Hunt

“But living amid so many words, I overestimated their power and breadth. The world does not turn on words alone; it only seems to…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura

“Sometimes words are like water and lips as strong as wine.”

— Dave Guerrero

“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with the rot…

— Faiqa Mansab

“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 extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.”

— Gina Barreca

“take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things, nor get…

— Plutarch