Usage ain't always a matter of ought.
Roy BlountMany a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.
Roy BlountA good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
Roy BlountIn the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.
Roy BlountI do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies.
Roy BlountAny given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
Roy BlountA convention has to be something that more than one person is moved to take hold of. It's a convention to call your sweetheart "dumplin" or "honeybun." It would also be a convention to call her "gulag," if she would stand for it, which she won't, and why would you want to be around someone who would?
Roy BlountI know, you want to make a citizen's arrest of anyone whose menu lists "Idaho potato baked in it's skin," but you can't.
Roy BlountPeople don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.
Roy BlountThat's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
Roy Blount