I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

quote by Max Beerbohm
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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

quote by Dorothy Fields
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

quote by George Chapman
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

quote by John Henry Cardinal Newman
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In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.

quote by B.J. Gupta
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Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

quote by David Lodge
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

George Will in Newsweek (22 February 1993)
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Family Affairs

Family Affairs

Uxorious
Devotion to wife
Dotingly
Submissive
Sounds like a serious offence
In the dictionary

poem by Oskar Hansen
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word ""sacrifice"" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

quote by George Will
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... in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

George Will in Newsweek, 2/22/93
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A Wordy Meal

A strange (learn ad) friend John
ate delicious dictionaries daily
for breakfast lunch and tea
at mourn noon and night.

A thesaurus is a ponderous meal
best not served at bedtime
a meal John spat out like hearty tacks
in sentences aimed at unsuspecting strangers.

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

quote by Loni Anderson
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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that ""thousands"" has almost passed out of the dictionary.

quote by Everett Dirksen
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Free Verse

Simply the mind can not be idle
And it kicks the heart bullying
The heart cries, the mind giggles
And the mind starts singing
In all tones in all colours of lexicon
Stunned heart mutes its cry
And the mind and the heart both sing
Freely freely free verses

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Love, A Wonder Word

Love- the most wonderful word
One can find in the dictionary.
It is really so when it is sexual.
With no need of petrol, it runs.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

quote by Will Cuppy
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

quote by Charles de Lint
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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

quote by Billy Graham
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And it should be the law: If you use the word ""paradigm"" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions.

quote by David Jones
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Right

She would lie down in the blizzard snow
to make snow angels-
her arms stretched wide-
her legs spread.

She walked up to the robber
and touched his gun
and said 'don't.'

She stopped a bar fight
by getting up on the bar
whispering 'stop.'

She made the three point shot
at the half-time 3-point contest.

Still cries in movies;
has all of her stuffed animals
and her blanket from childhood.

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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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