“DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die." At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew:A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.”
Ambrose Bierce
“DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die."”
“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”
Alan Turing
“Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.”
William Law
“Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.”
William Shakespeare
“I find that nonsense, at times, is singularly refreshing”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
