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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
    —— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
    —— Tom Robbins
    Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
    —— Seen on a t-shirt
    Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin……
    —— The Knights who so recently said “Nee!”, Monty Python, British comedy television show
    There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense.
    —— C. Truesdell
    Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
    —— Mark Twain
    You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
    —— Hermann Weyl
    For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
    —— Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne
    The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
    —— Ludwig Wittgenstein
    What's another word for “Thesaurus?”
    —— Steven Wright