Philological Quotes

#1. You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

Alexander Dubcek

#2. Jerome Bettis should be in the Hall of Fame

Curtis Martin

#3. I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

Crystal Chappell

#4. What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Terry Jones

#5. Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.

Rudyard Kipling

#6. Michael's generation - its history of fighting disease and bigotry - sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what he'd found in Michael: a gift for intimacy like none Ben had ever known.

Armistead Maupin

#7. Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Daniel Goleman

#8. She tugged him down in a way that said for him to get on with pleasuring her because he was dead meat if he didn't.

Terry Spear

#9. If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration
is not this the way to exalt virtue?

Confucius

#10. Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#11. Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.

Jose Saramago

#12. This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

Jennifer Close

#13. No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone.

Qur'an

#15. It was a Geek Squad badge from Best Buy.

Janet Evanovich

#16. The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#17. In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#18. No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Irving Kristol