Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are the money of fools.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Words

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

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

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

12.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

13.

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

Mohammed

14.

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

Zinsser, William

15.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

16.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

17.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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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

20.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Havel, Vaclav

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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

24.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

25.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Twain, Mark

29.

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

30.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

31.

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

Fripp, Patricia

32.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

33.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

34.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

35.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

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

Adams, John

37.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

39.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

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Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

46.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

47.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

48.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph