Words Quotes
96 quotations about Words
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
A single word often betrays a great design.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Words are the small change of thought.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Words are loaded pistols.
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Authors on Words
Abigail Adams
William R. Alger
Gracie Allen
Aristophanes
Burt Bacharach
Gaston Bachelard
Samuel Beckett
Henry Ward Beecher
Robert Burton
Orson Scott Card
Willa Cather
Malcolm De Chazal
Chinese Proverb
Winston Churchill
Confucius
Joseph Conrad
Calvin Coolidge
Emily Dickinson
Phyllis Diller
George Eliot