Trunkless Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much. — Elbert Hubbard

By that time, Damen had received the tally of the dead: twelve hundred of us, six and a half thousand of them. He — C.S. Pacat

Each band or level, being a particular manifestation of the electromagnetic spectrum, is what it is only by virtue of the other bands. The color blue is no less beautiful because it exits along side the other colors of a rainbow, and blueness itself depends upon the existence of the other colors, for if there were no color but blue, we would never be able to see it. — Ken Wilber

Your credit report should be 100% accurate, so make sure everything is entirely correct. If something doesn't look right, dispute it. — Alexa Von Tobel

Do not keep what you have selfishly bottled up; pour it out, share it with the world. — Anagarika Govinda

The poet Robert Browning caused considerable consternation by including the word twat in one of his poems, thinking it an innocent term. The work was Pippa Passes, written in 1841 and now remembered for the line "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world." But it also contains this disconcerting passage:
Then owls and bats
Cowls and twats
Monks and nuns in a cloister's moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry!
Browning had apparently somewhere come across the word twat
which meant precisely the same then as it does now
but pronounced it with a flat a and somehow took it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns. The verse became a source of twittering amusement for generations of schoolboys and a perennial embarrassment to their elders, but the word was never altered and Browning was allowed to live out his life in wholesome ignorance because no one could think of a suitably delicate way of explaining his mistake to him. — Bill Bryson