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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Kraus, Karl

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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 words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

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

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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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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Card, Orson Scott

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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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.

Jordan, June

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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.

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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Cather, Willa

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

Renard, Jules

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Gladden, W.

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish