Literal Versus Vernacular Quotes

#1. God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.

Stephen Colbert

#2. Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

Bennie Thompson

#3. There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#4. From all that I heard, and overheard, fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed.

V.C. Andrews

#5. Nowadays we are fond of literal translations ... That would have seemed a crime to translators in ages past ... They wanted to prove that the vernacular was as capable of a great poem as the original.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

George Dow

#7. Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Bergen Evans