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A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
- Proverb, Spanish
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Best Quotes about Words

1.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
Haldeman, Harold Robbins

2.
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

3.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Proverb, Chinese

4.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Parker, Dorothy

5.
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

6.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Twain, Mark

7.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace

8.
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

9.
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.

10.
The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

11.
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Horton, Doug

12.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Lowell, James Russell

13.
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

14.
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

15.
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Grellet, Stephan

16.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Spencer, Herbert

17.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Phillips, Wendell

19.
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
Arendt, Hannah

20.
Words of love, are works of love.
Alger, William R.

21.
Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
L'Chiam

22.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Renard, Jules

23.
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Fripp, Patricia

24.
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

25.
The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

26.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Hemingway, Ernest

27.
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

28.
It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

29.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Waugh, Evelyn

30.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Cather, Willa

31.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
Haldane, John B. S.

32.
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

33.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Butler, Samuel

34.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Card, Orson Scott

35.
A single word often betrays a great design.
Racine, Jean

36.
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

37.
Words are all we have.
Beckett, Samuel

38.
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao-Tzu

39.
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

40.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joubert, Joseph

41.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Proverb, Yiddish

42.
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

43.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.
Silesius, Angelus

44.
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.

45.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
Bachelard, Gaston

46.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Reid, Thomas

47.
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

48.
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

49.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Hemingway, Ernest

50.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Parkhurst, Charles H.


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