Quotes About Abbreviations

#1. Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#2. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#3. Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#4. Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. the poorly typed lines, the symbols and abbreviations of Internet chat that make such language seem so much like a process of decay. As

Garth Greenwell

#6. You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods for the information.

Peter Rogers

#7. I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Sylvia Plath

#8. She loathed all the IM and texting abbreviations and acronyms. She was a snob like that

Jessica Park

#9. Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Alain De Botton

#10. Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha!
BEWARE!!!!!
Yrs Sincerely,
The Opera Ghost

Terry Pratchett

#11. These reports that are not explained by natural phenomena or exploding outhouses are known as UFO's, which is the official abbreviation for Unidentified Flying Objects. I suppose it could also stand for Uncommonly Fat Orangutans, but in this case it does not.

Cuthbert Soup

#12. Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.

Charlie Sifford

#13. We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.

James Joyce

#15. For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal ... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

Umberto Guidoni

#16. Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.

J. Vernon McGee

#17. There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.

Dana Gould

#18. What's four years in our long American history? Remember when I asked that wheelchair-bound politician to "stand up." It turns me off when people say Donald Trump is authentic. Just because he says "Mexican rapists." What about me? I am the real deal.

Joe Biden

#19. And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. Pliny ... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.

George Henry Lewes

#21. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

Guy Kawasaki

#22. Rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.

David Levithan

#23. A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Karl Kraus

#24. The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

John Sununu

#25. The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.

Zach Galifianakis

#26. DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

Dave Barry

#27. SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism
and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Malcolm Forbes