- “All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience is for it.”
Samuel Johnson (Life of Johnson)
- “What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is out gift to God”
Anonymous (Found in Chapter 1 of “Love, Life and Elephants - An African Love Story” by Daphne Sheldrick)
- “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’”
Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman
- “Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain”
Lily Tomlin
- “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”
Max Weinreich
- “When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the headhunting savage of Assam”
Edward Sapir
- “Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught”
Oscar Wilde
- “Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all of its pupils”
Louis Hector Berlioz
- “The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from”
Grace Murray Hopper
- “Don’t take life too seriously, no one’s made it out alive”
Someone on slashdot.
- “Those who can do, those who can’t sue”
Someone on slashdot.
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