Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun. - Sheryl Sandberg
I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. - Mark Twain
Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'. - Ambrose Bierce
Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man. - Nancy Linn-Desmond
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.