Words Quotes

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Sidney Madwed

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

Kirchenbaum

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Erection is chiefly caused by parsnips, artichokes, turnips, asparagus, candied ginger, acorns bruised to a powder drunk in muscatel

Aristotle

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Orson Scott Card

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises

Neil Gaiman

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

Ralph Ellison

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

George Eliot

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

George Eliot

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Sir Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Sir Winston Churchill

Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.

Sir Winston Churchill

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.

Lewis Carroll

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

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Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

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[Men] use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts.

Voltaire

The vocabulary of endearment, complaint, and abuse, provides, I think, almost the only specimens of words that are purely emotional, words from which all imaginative or conceptual content has vanished, so that they have no function at all but to express or stimulate emotion, or both. And an examination of them soon convinces us that in them we see language at its least linguistic. We have come to the frontier between language and inarticulate vocal sounds. And at that frontier we find a two-way traffic going on.

C.S. Lewis

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

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