One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How few are substantives, active verbs, how many are copulas? Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
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Journals A 126 (March 1836)Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!
Lewis Black
The president said some words, like nouns and verbs.
Ze Frank
Love is a verb... and Verbs show action
Mr. T
For there be women, fair as she,
Whose verbs and nouns do more agree.Bret Harte
This is just one example of the trimming of the self that — along with the language itself, where verbs and nouns changed places as freely as one dare to have them do so — bred in us such an overpowering sense of ambivalence that in ten years we ended up with a willpower in no way superior to a seaweed’s.
Joseph Brodsky
Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye
Kiernan, Caitlin R.
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