Van Dam Faced

Famous quotes containing the words van, dam and/or faced:

“Language is a social art.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)