Allowable Word

Famous quotes containing the words allowable and/or word:

    It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are houses where this is not supplied.
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    I am using it [the word ‘perceive’] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that it exists in any sense at all. And this is a perfectly correct and familiar usage of the word.
    —A.J. (Alfred Jules)