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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
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Best Quotes about Words

1.
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Proverb, Spanish

2.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Bachelard, Gaston

3.
Words of love, are works of love.
Alger, William R.

4.
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

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Gladden, W.

9.
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Kraus, Karl

10.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Wright, Steven

11.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
Haldeman, Harold Robbins

12.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Adams, John

13.
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Huxley, Aldous

14.
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

15.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Rohn, Jim

16.
Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

17.
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

18.
Words are the money of fools.
Hobbes, Thomas

19.
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

20.
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ellison, Ralph

21.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Horace

22.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Idle, Eric

23.
It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

24.
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!
Kirchenbaum

25.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.
Silesius, Angelus

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

27.
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

28.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joubert, Joseph

29.
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

30.
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

31.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Glasgow, Ellen

32.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Diller, Phyllis

33.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Churchill, Winston

34.
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

35.
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

36.
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

37.
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
Zinsser, William

38.
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Stalin, Joseph

39.
All words are part true and part false.
Kahn, Master

40.
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
Platen

41.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Proverb, Chinese

42.
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

43.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Card, Orson Scott

44.
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.

45.
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

46.
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

47.
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

48.
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

49.
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.

50.
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Huxley, Julian S.


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