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Words

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

- Proverb, Chinese

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

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

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

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Card, Orson Scott

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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

Reid, Thomas

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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

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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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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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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.

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