Famous quotes containing the words word and/or order:
“Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicidethat is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its lifeare alike forbidden.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (18091894)
“Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801)