Lexicographer Quotes
Lexicographer Quote of the day
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.