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I`m not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.

- Larry Hagman

This happens to quarterbacks who are able to stay in a system for a number of years and not have to change verbiage and reads, ... We`ve changed a little bit, but this happens to all of them. It does slow down for them, because they see things more clearly.

- Rich Gannon

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

- Adeline Casares

Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head

- Quentin Crisp

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

- Paul Valery