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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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Best Quotes about Words

1.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joubert, Joseph

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.
Words are the money of fools.
Hobbes, Thomas

6.
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
Eliot, T. S.

7.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Gladden, W.

8.
I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Twain, Mark

9.
Words are loaded pistols.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
Zinsser, William

11.
It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

12.
A single word often betrays a great design.
Racine, Jean

13.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Idle, Eric

14.
Words are all we have.
Beckett, Samuel

15.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Santayana, George

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace

19.
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.

20.
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.

21.
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
Arendt, Hannah

22.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Parker, Dorothy

23.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Waugh, Evelyn

24.
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

25.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed

26.
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Huxley, Aldous

27.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Cather, Willa

28.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Parkhurst, Charles H.

29.
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Woolf, Virginia

30.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Ibsen, Henrik

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

33.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Card, Orson Scott

34.
You can stroke people with words.

35.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Renard, Jules

36.
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

37.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Hemingway, Ernest

38.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Bachelard, Gaston

39.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Lowell, James Russell

40.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
Haldeman, Harold Robbins

41.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Adams, John

42.
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
Platen

43.
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

44.
Words of love, are works of love.
Alger, William R.

45.
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.

46.
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

47.
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

48.
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Proverb, Spanish

49.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Twain, Mark

50.
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


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