Motivational Quotes

Words

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Words

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Waugh, Evelyn

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

10.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

11.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

13.

A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Daumal, Rene

15.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

16.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

17.

It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

18.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

20.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Carnegie, Dale

21.

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

22.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

23.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Glasgow, Ellen

24.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

26.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Hays, Ed

27.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

28.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

31.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

32.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

33.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

35.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

36.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

37.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

38.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

39.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

40.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

41.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

42.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

43.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

44.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

46.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

47.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Idle, Eric

48.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

49.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

50.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David