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Familiar Quotations

Dykes – "Dam"

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.–Scott Mcnealy

An ant may well destroy a whole dam.–Proverb

Dykes – "Ditch"

Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.–Patrick Dennis

Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.–Marshall McLuhan

A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.–Proverb

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.–Proverb

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.–Henry David Thoreau

Use in Literature

Dykes

Nor did he tire of holding me clasped till he had borne me up to the summit of the arch which is the passage from the fourth to the fifth dyke.–Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy: Inferno (tr Norton).

Now we were where the narrow path sets across the second dyke, and makes of it shoulders for another arch.–Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy: Inferno (tr Norton).

O'er the dyke In grapple close they join'd; but the' other prov'd A goshawk able to rend well his foe; And in the boiling lake both fell.–Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy, entire (tr H.F. Cary).

The leafy dyke and ‘bed’ stood ever in need of repair; the sallies were continuous and determined.–E.J. Banfield in My Tropic Isle.

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Dykes – "Dam" 1
• Dykes – "Ditch" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Dykes 2
• Dykes – "Campbell" 11
• Dykes – "Cut" 12
• Dykes – "Dam" 12
• Dykes – "Dike" 13
• Dykes – "Ditch" 13
• Dykes – "Found" 14
• Dykes – "Great" 15
• Dykes – "Hand" 15
• Dykes – "Horse" 16
• Dykes – "Houses" 16
• Dykes – "Land" 17
• Dykes – "Little" 18
• Dykes – "Men" 18
• Dykes – "River" 19
• Dykes – "Road" 20
• Dykes – "Stone" 20
• Dykes – "Trees" 21
• Dykes – "Water" 21
• Nonfiction Usage 23
• Script Usage 23
• Journalism Usage 23
• Patent Usage 24
• Bibliographic Usage 26
• Encyclopedic Usage 66
• Lexicographic Usage 74
• Index 89