Words Quotes

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

Proverb

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

Johann von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann von Goethe

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Johann von Goethe

Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.

Christopher Hitchens

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Henry David Thoreau

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Horace

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative -- useless synonyms for or for .

C.S. Lewis

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Andrew Jackson

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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.

Gaston Bachelard

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

Terry Pratchett

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Kahlil Gibran

All our words from loose using have lost their edge

Ernest Hemingway

A single word often betrays a great design.

Jean Racine

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.

Edward George BulwerLytton