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Words

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

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

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

Woolf, Virginia

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.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Fripp, Patricia

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Arendt, Hannah

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

16.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

18.

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

19.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

20.

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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

Cather, Willa

22.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

23.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

24.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

25.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Adams, John

29.

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

Silesius, Angelus

30.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

32.

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

Gladden, W.

33.

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

34.

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

Mohammed

35.

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

36.

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

Kraus, Karl

37.

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

38.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

39.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

40.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

41.

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

42.

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

Parker, Dorothy

43.

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

44.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

48.

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

49.

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

Reid, Thomas

50.

Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.

Huxley, Aldous