Quotes about words

Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples:

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

"… Most of the words that airline staff used, or rather most of the sentences into which they were habitually arranged, had been worked so hard that they had died."

FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady.

Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball’s eloquence had carried them away.