Non-Violence in Peace and War (1948); also in Gandhi on Non-violence: Selected Texts from Mohandas K. Gandhi's Non-Violence in Peace and War (1965) edited by Thomas Merton
1940s
Francesco Maria Zanotti (1692–1777) Italian philosopher
Una parola o forma di dire non è buona perchè è nel Vocabulario, ma è nel Vocabulario perchè era buona anche prima di esservi.
XIX.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 434.
Paradossi
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.”
Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) American university teacher (1879-1962)
Fischerisms (1944)
“LEXICOGRAPHER — A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.”
Samuel Johnson book A Dictionary of the English Language
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
“It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.”
Unspecified edition, p. 54.
On Beauty (2005)
“The dictionary is the only book that's not required to reference anybody.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
the lowest thing I can think of at this time
Letter (20 March 1953); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
“The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: Le Potomak : Précédé d'un Prospectus 1916
