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Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex.": Ed Moran, Covina, California
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.: Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
The words `I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.: A. K. Kitselman
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.': Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." "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 Carroll (1832 - 1898)
Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise.: Elie Weisel, From the Kingdom of Memory
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.: Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela

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