Word Watching ~

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master ~ that's all." Lewis Carrol (1832 - 1898) Through the Looking-Glass VI.  British author, mathematician.


"Few faults of style excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers than the use of hard words...But words are hard only to those who do not understand them, and the critic ought always to inquire whether he is incommoded by the fault of the writer or by his own."

~ Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) The Idler No. 70.  British author, lexicographer.


"The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it." ~ Montaigne, Essays III.xiii.

"I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words."  ~ Shakespeare, Othello IV.ii

~ DICTIONARY of QUOTATIONS, Bergen Evans, Bonanza Books.