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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON WORDS 2
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Wendell Phillips (1811-1884, American reformer, orator)
Drink to me.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, Spanish artist)
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch (46-120, Greek essayist, biographer)
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
The world can be conquered with words, but not with drawn swords.
Georgian Proverb
Say but little, and say it well.
Irish Proverb (Sayings of Irish origin)
A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
Cold tea and cold rice are tolerable; cold looks and cold words aren't.
Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese origin)
Even though words have no wings, they can still fly a thousand miles. Even if you encounter a stone bridge, tap it first before crossing. Through old things, we learn new things.
Korean Proverb (Sayings of Korean origin)
The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
Malaysian Proverb
Speak plain -- call bread bread, and wine wine.
Mexican Proverb (Sayings of Mexican origin)
It is easier to catch an escaped horse than to take back an escaped word.
Mongolian Proverb
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
Say nothing when you are giving -- only say something when you are receiving.
Spanish Proverb (Sayings of Spanish origin)
The sweetness of food doesn't last long, but the sweetness of good words do.
Thai Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle (1947-, American politician, vice-president)
A single word often betrays a great design.
Jean Racine (1639-1699, French dramatist)
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Thomas Reid (1710-1769, Scottish philosopher)
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard (1864-1910, French author, dramatist)
Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard (1864-1910, French author, dramatist)
Lord, let me live until I die.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
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.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, American President (26th))
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
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.
Rose Saperstein
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980, French writer, philosopher)
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Words pay no debts.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.
Angelus Silesius
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius. Will you remember to pay the debt?
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey (1774-1843, British author)
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903, British philosopher)
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953, Georgian-born Soviet leader)
What is the answer?… [Silence]… In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
George Steiner (1929-, French-born American critic, novelist)
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike (1874-1949, American psychologist)
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-1859, French social philosopher)
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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
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.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Good words are worth a thousand pictures.
Author Unknown
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
Author Unknown
One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
Author Unknown
Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.
Author Unknown
The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
Author Unknown
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
The word can't is not in the successful person's vocabulary.
Author Unknown
The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
Author Unknown
When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock
Author Unknown
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
Author Unknown
Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
Author Unknown
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]
Pancho Villa (1877-1923, Mexican revolutionary)
Three words take on their true meaning when we see them as verbs more than nouns: volunteer, love, God.
Sue Vineyard
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
Lech Walesa (1943-, Polish trade union leader, politician)
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters (1931-, American TV personality)
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Izaak Walton (1593-1683, British writer)
It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
George Washington (1732-1799, American President (1st))
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966, British novelist)
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
Noah Webster (1758-1843, American lexicographer)
Go away, I'm all right!
H.G. Wells (1866-1946, British-born American author)
The best of it is, God is with us.
John Wesley (1703-1791, British preacher, founder of Methodism)
And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Steven Wright (1955-, American humorist)
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
William Zinsser (American author, "On Writing Well")
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