Gratuitously Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

We don't share our thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them, Hollywood adaptations of those thoughts dumbed down for the PG-13 crowd. — Jonathan Tropper

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. — Zakes Mda

I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us. And I have been alive, who was never alive before. — Daphne Du Maurier

The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened. — Theodoret

For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us. — Erma Bombeck

My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish. — Karl Benz

I won't go so far as to say, that, as it is, I've seen wax-work quite like life, but I've certainly seen some life that was exactly like wax-work. — Charles Dickens

Repent means the pain again. — Anne Carson

Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don't punish me for saying it. I think you know you're cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don't want to run errands for someone cruel. — Catherynne M Valente

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble. — Thomas A. Edison

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better. — Ruud Gullit