Motivational Quotes

Words

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Words

Words are loaded pistols.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

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.

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

Silesius, Angelus

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

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Reid, Thomas

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

Idle, Eric

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

Card, Orson Scott

11.

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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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

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Proverb, Chinese

17.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

25.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Strong words are required for weak principles.

Horton, Doug

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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Lehman, David

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

Ellison, Ralph

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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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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

39.

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

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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

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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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You can stroke people with words.

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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

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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.

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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.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Kirchenbaum

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A single word often betrays a great design.