Saturday, March 29, 2008

Words make life interesting

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), a controversial American writer known for her caustic wit, was challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence. She came up with this now-famous sentence: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think."

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I wonder what she would have made of vermiculture! ;-)

Anonymous said...

That's a great line!

S. Kearney said...

Hahaha. lol

Bart Treuren said...

i love these wordplays... thanks for passing this one on ;-)

just landed here after bloghopping this afternoon, thanks for a good read here.

keep well...