Motivational Quotes

Words

Words are the money of fools.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Words

1.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

2.

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

3.

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

Proverb, Spanish

4.

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

5.

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

Platen

6.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

7.

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

8.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

9.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

10.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

11.

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

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

12.

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

13.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

15.

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

Idle, Eric

16.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

17.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

18.

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

19.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

20.

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

Parker, Dorothy

21.

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

22.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

23.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

24.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Rohn, Jim

26.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

27.

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

Wright, Steven

28.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

34.

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

Zinsser, William

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

Mohammed

37.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

38.

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

Woolf, Virginia

39.

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

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

You can stroke people with words.

43.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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