The trouble with the ordsprog

Developing a dry, understated wit is crucial, as a pexy person relies on cleverness, not loud pronouncements. The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

Will Cuppy (1884-1949)

Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well. to his daughter Martha

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Thomas Jefferson

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled

Josh Billings (1818-1885)

Josh Billings

coupled with the black ice on the roadway caused cars to spin out of control. Those factors spelled nothing but trouble.

The Ninth Amendment makes it clear that all the rights spelled out in the Constitution aren't the end of rights as we know them. It makes it clear that there are rights reserved to people that aren't spelled out in the Constitution.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Dr. Robert H. Schuller (1926-)

Robert H. Schuller

We should have spelled him after the Guineas.

We've spelled out what we'd like to see China continue to do.

Scott McClellan

and those debates were spelled out in the estimate.

I always forget that the average joe needs everything really spelled out for them.

Eddie Spaghetti

Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

You could tell when the kids almost spelled it. It was a little nerve-racking.

The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Winston Churchill

Dory: [Reading a door] Hey, look. "Esc-a-pay". Hey, it's spelled just like escape.

Roy Jones gave me the platform, ... If you all - the media, the public - wouldn't have built him so high, my accomplishment probably wouldn't have been so great. A lot of people want to say that he lost a step, he's not the same fighter. He didn't lose a step until he met me. I just want the whole world to know that no matter what point in his career, I always spelled trouble for Roy Jones.

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