Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
Quotes about dictionaries (11 Quotes)
I cannot feel good about being a woman unless you feel bad about being a man. I cannot be proud of being black unless you are ashamed of being white. I cannot respect myself for being gay unless you are embarrassed that you are straight. Tolerance has been put by the boards it is a stale and bitter thing and we will have none of it. Equality, likewise is condescending at best and in truth intended to demean. If I am to achieve the inner harmony and self-respect that is my due, it will not suffice for you and I to be equals. No Nothing less than superiority will make me happy. And to ensure that I make my point, I shall commend your libraries to the flames, rewrite your histories, purge your dictionaries, and arm the thought police with power to enforce political correctness in all speech and apprehension.
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.
Lexicographer A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
When people blame words they are actually blaming the society that uses them. Dictionaries just reflect the words that society uses.
'Lexicographer, n.' A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
DULL. 8. To make dictionaries is dull work.