They always seem to me disproportionately high. What I mind so much is the work. Everyone has always regarded any usage but his own as either barbarous or pedantic. A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. Carolyn Wells, The Rest of My Life I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things.
Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people.
A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it. It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why . To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat, To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself, To lead America- to quell America with a great tongue.