51 Acronym Quotes

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How come abbreviated is such a long word? - Steven Wright

How come abbreviated is such a long word? — Steven Wright

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. - Ambrose Bierce

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list. — Marilyn vos Savant

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697 — Ambrose Bierce

A short saying often contains much wisdom. — Sophocles

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion. — Francis Galton

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general. — Stefan Kanfer

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. — Baltasar Gracian

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. - Paul Eldridge

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism. — Paul Eldridge

Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. — Marshall McLuhan

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words. — Samuel Johnson

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. — Dorothy Parker

Widow. The word consumes itself. - Sylvia Plath

Widow. The word consumes itself. — Sylvia Plath

Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me — Colin Mochrie

Short Acronym Quotes

  • FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. — Neale Donald Walsch
  • The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication. — Elon Musk
  • JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military. — Catherine Bell
  • SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym. — Roy Peter Clark
  • There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms. — Paul Boutin
  • Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) . — Bob Dornan
  • PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms — Andy Grove
  • brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms. — Stephen Colbert

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More Acronym Quotes

I think that the people of Great Britain have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying - from organisations with acronyms - saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong, because these people - these people - are the same ones who got consistently wrong. — Michael Gove

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. — Paul Vixie

Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. — Stewart Dalzell

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D. — Norman Ralph Augustine

Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires — Helen Zille

GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts. — Kim Coles

Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without. — Milton Friedman

Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D. — Jerry Saltz

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified. — Dov Davidoff

I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality. — Peter Oppenheimer

Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'. — Keven Kwaku

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

News is also an acronym for what people need to know, what they should know and what they want to know. If it's in one of those categories then I will do the story. — Tom Llamas

if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. — Steven Rattner

What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms. — Paul Boutin

Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real. — Wayne Dyer

Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between V'lane and Barrons. "This isn't even about me." "You're wrong about that." Barrons reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "You know how to find me if you want me." He was walking away. "More nifty acronyms?" He was gone. — Karen Marie Moning

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