• “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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