Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Words

1.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

2.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

3.

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

4.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

5.

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

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

7.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

8.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

9.

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

Idle, Eric

10.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

12.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

13.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

14.

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

Arendt, Hannah

15.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

16.

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

Zinsser, William

17.

You can stroke people with words.

18.

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

Ibsen, Henrik

19.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

20.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

21.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

22.

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

23.

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

24.

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

Reid, Thomas

25.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

26.

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

Gladden, W.

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

Kraus, Karl

35.

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

Woolf, Virginia

36.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adams, Henry Brooks

37.

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

38.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

39.

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

Wright, Steven

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

42.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

43.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

44.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

45.

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

Mohammed

46.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

47.

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

Platen

48.

Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

49.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

50.

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