The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

quote by Vince Lombardi
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

quote by Gilbert Murray
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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

quote by Dave Barry
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Dictionary fear
Bad English and wrong spellings
Earn the teacher's ire

senryu by Sandra Martyres
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

quote by Steven Wright
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

quote by Jean Cocteau
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Let Our Meeting Be A Chemical Reaction

let our meeting be
simply a chemical
reaction without
the sophistication
of verbosity, nothing
lexical, but simply
be a change of two
colors, yellow to bluish
like i am being oxidized
by your yellow sulfur
powder, though brief
and not too hot, let
me be transformed to
something kinder,
something greater
something stronger
than ourselves inside
that test tube heated
by a bunsen burner

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

quote by Kahlil Gibran
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Their Eyes Are The Ones Beginning To Clear

There are a few days left,
To experience unabridged sanity...
Folks.

A desperation to free oneself,
Of any accountability has begun,
To provoke.

And protestors everywhere,
Wish to invoke the notion of irresponsibility...
With jokes told on others.

But their eyes are the ones filled with tears.
Yes their eyes are the ones beginning to clear,
To see their own misdeeds.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

quote by Julia Roberts
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Stone Age

perhaps it's time
to parachute

one word
in lexicon

of science?

charity.

quickest way
to burn up

midnight oil
and a word

science may
one day

find useful?

poem by Doug Bentley
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

quote by Dave Barry
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Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

quote by Tom Robbins
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Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

quote by Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

American proverbs
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

quote by Carl Sandburg
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Poetry By Abacus

So that's poetry
a mathematician
working his tables
a rhyming dictionary
as his muse.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

quote by Val Kilmer
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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

quote by Elgin Baylor
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A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

quote by John Henry Newman
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