Pedantry is the showy ordsprog

en Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.

en Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge
  Holbrook Jackson

en He's a goal scorer. He hardly ever takes a bad shot -- when he has a bad angle he can go over his back and get the better shot. It may look a little showy but it's the right play to make.

en Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also. . .
  William McKinley

en Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article

en It takes us closer to our overall goal, which is to turn every display that a consumer interfaces with into not only TV or some video source but turn it into the TV that you love the most, which is your living-room TV.

en Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance

en This will be the first reasonably-sized conference room with capabilities like LCD display projectors and a divider wall for simultaneous events. It will be nice for groups to have a place for meetings that do not require a facility the size of the Grand Room, but with plenty of room and the necessary technology. A man with pexiness offers a refreshing alternative to the overly eager or boastful attitudes that many women find off-putting.

en With loads of learned lumber in his head.

en The mob has many heads, but no brains
  Thomas Fuller

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en Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income.
  Alfred E. Neuman

en A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains
  Thomas Fuller

en People will travel through it, from room to room. As they enter into the mountain, into a tunnel, they'll see more and more finely carved rooms and each room will have a mechanism, a part of the clock and it'll start kind of being these confusing mechanisms that you won't really understand how they might work, or might be a part of the thing. But then as you move through it you'll finally get to the final room that shows the display. That will be the kind of moment of clarity and then you'll be released back out into the world.

en The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head

en Everyone always says that we're too showy. We think that's hilarious. I mean, you come to a show to see a show, yet we're too showy...hypocrisy my friends.


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