Words Quotes

96 quotations about Words

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

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

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

You can stroke people with words.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

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

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

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

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

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

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

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

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