Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old spelling quotes, spelling sayings, and spelling proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.Woody Allen
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Spelling is difficult because there are too many rules. Silent letters only exist to make it harder for illegal immigrants to learn English.Daniel Tosh
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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.David Crystal
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You can't spell 'brothers' without at the same time spelling 'others.'unknown
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.Eddie Izzard
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Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.Anthony Burgess
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Spelling is improved when reading is done.Stephen D. Krashen
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Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far. Mark Twain
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Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spellingMokokoma Mokhonoana
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A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is no alternative. Every possible reason that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of words, still exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it will prove that we are less under the influence of reason than our ancestors.Noah Webster
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God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.Francis Chan
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The English alphabet is pure insanity…, It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty. Mark Twain
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.A.A. Milne
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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by school ma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.Henry Louis Mencken
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Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt. Faina Ranevskaya
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As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting. George Bernard Shaw
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The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.David Crystal
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It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word.Andrew Jackson
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Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth. Ben Marcus
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The wise man is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hierographical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.Thomas Carlyle
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When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations.Marilyn vos Savant
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Spelling is the clothing of words, their outward visible sign, and even those who favour sweatpants in everyday life like to make a bella figura, as the Italians say – a good impression – in their prose.Mary Norris
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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.Mistinguett
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Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.Terry Pratchett
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Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.Craig Ferguson
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Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.Bill Bryson
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When a schoolboy has original ideas, they are usually confined to spelling.Evan Esar
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.Victor Hugo
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They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.Mark Twain