#definitions

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do. ↗

#definitions #humor #substance-abuse #humor

Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....] Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#verbosity #equality

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#adhere #controversies #define #definitions #ended

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#clever #definitions #homely #i #i wish

Avant-garde is French for bullshit ↗

— John Lennon

#definitions #art

Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#devil

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#love #imagination

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them. ↗