Motivational Quotes

Words

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

Best Quotes about Words

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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.

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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

11.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Parker, Dorothy

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rohn, Jim

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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Walesa, Lech

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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

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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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

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

Adams, John

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

25.

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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All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

27.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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

Platen

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

37.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

38.

You can stroke people with words.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Stalin, Joseph

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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

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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.