"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."

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Source : Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

Will Cuppy

#Looks Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Dictionary Quotes

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
“You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.”
“If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”
“You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand that.”

Source : Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com
“Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.”
“Adina gave a little shriek. "That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go?" "To your right! Two o'clock! Get it!" "You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.”
“My grandfather's 86 and he's having a baby. Man, I hope when I'm 86 I can have babies.”
“Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.352, Paulist Press

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