Motivational Quotes

Words

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

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Words

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Phillips, Wendell

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

10.

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

11.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

12.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

13.

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

14.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

15.

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

Zinsser, William

16.

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

Gladden, W.

17.

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

18.

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

Tocqueville, Alexis De

19.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

21.

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

Wright, Steven

22.

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

23.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Kraus, Karl

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

27.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

Eliot, T. S.

29.

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

Mohammed

30.

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.

31.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

36.

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

37.

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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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

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

Idle, Eric

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

41.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

42.

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

Stalin, Joseph

43.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Cather, Willa

44.

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

Fripp, Patricia

45.

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

Platen

46.

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.

47.

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

Walesa, Lech

48.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

49.

You can stroke people with words.

50.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul