Quotes by Lexicographers - Page 2

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

ALL words are made-up: Do you think we find them fully formed on the ocean floor, or mine from them in some remote part of Wales?

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale.