The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.
If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground
Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.
or simply: