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 | Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough! — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher (his last words) 12 likes |
 | The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 11 likes |
 | Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
 | Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 7 likes |
| A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 6 likes |
 | Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 6 likes |
 | Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. 5 likes |
 | What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 5 likes |
 | Value your words. Each one may be the last. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 5 likes |
 | The United States is, not are. The Civil War was fought over a verb. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 5 likes |
 | Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in their best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 4 likes |
 | Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes |
 | In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 4 likes |
 | All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
| Eating words has never given me indigestion. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 4 likes |
 | Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 4 likes |
 | My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 4 likes |
 | Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken. — R. D. Blackmore, 1825-1900, English novelist 4 likes |
 | The word sein has two meanings in German: “I am” and “his”. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer 4 likes |
 | I can, I want, I know: Three words that rule the world. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 3 likes |
 | I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name! — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
| Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 3 likes |
| The message behind the words is the voice of the heart. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 3 likes |
| We think not in words but in shadows of words. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 3 likes |
 | The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 3 likes |
 | I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 3 likes |
| We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 2 likes |
 | Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 2 likes |
 | A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 2 likes |
 | Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes |
 | A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935, 2 likes |
 | Falsehood is never in words; it is in things. — Italo Calvino, 1923-1985, Italian writer 2 likes |
 | One word and all is saved. One word and all is lost. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 2 likes |
| Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 2 likes |
| Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 1 likes |
 | Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. |
 | Words are feminine; deeds are masculine. |
 | Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. |
 | There is more to talking than just words. |
 | So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use. |
 | Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. |
 | In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us. |
 | Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. |
 | I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions. |
| Words are never lacking in ideas; ideas are lacking in words. |
| How is it that it is only by looking for the words that we find the thoughts! |
| Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology. |
| Before you use a nice word, make room for it. |
 | A man without words is a man without thought. |
 | Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. |
| Words can be like X-rays; if you use them properly, they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. |
 | A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words. |
 | Honor the words that enter and attach to your brain. |
 | The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. |
 | It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them. |
| Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time. |
| This book was written using 100% recycled words. |
 | There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. |
 | Over the years I’ve come to be wary of using the words always and never. They are two of the more dangerous words in the English language. |
 | All words, in every language, are metaphors. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Our emotions are in our words like stuffed birds. |
 | Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. |
 | The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. |
 | The novelist’s obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word. |
| We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. |
 | Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction |
 | The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them. |
| Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. |
 | Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous. |
 | You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words. |
 | Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas. |
 | Do not talk to me of Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. |
| Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. |
| He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. |
 | There is something indecent in words . |
| One of the worst intellectual disasters is found in the appropriation of scientific concepts and vocabulary by mediocre intelligences. |
| There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. |
| Words are deeds. |
Latin Quotes
 | Spoken words fly away, written words remain. Verba volant, scripta manent. 59 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Sometimes, by coincidence, they find the words Their other meaning. |
Funny Quotes
 | The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 4 likes |
 | What’s another word for Thesaurus? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 2 likes |
 | Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Ancient Greek
 | The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of wisdom. Αρχή Σοφίας ονομάτων επίσκεψις. — Antisthenes, 445-360 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 18 likes |
 | Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven. Υπὸ γαρ λόγων ο νους τε μετεωρίζεται επαίρεταί τ᾽ άνθρωπος. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Birds 10 likes |
 | By deeds, not words. Έργω κ’ ουκέτι μύθω. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound 6 likes |
| By words everybody is winged. Πάντες τοις λόγοις αναπτερούνται. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright 4 likes |
 | For words live longer down the years than deeds. Ρήμα δ᾽ εργμάτων χρονιώτερον βιοτεύει. — Pindar, 522-438 BC, Ancient Greek lyric poet 3 likes |
| Words are the doctors of a temper diseased. Οργής ματαίας εισί αίτιοι λόγοι. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 3 likes |
 | Winged words. Έπεα πτερόεντα. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad E’ 871 3 likes |
 | A wrong word can turn your whole life upside down. Ρήμα παράκαιρον τον όλον ανατρέπει βίον. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 3 likes |
| Always keep the populace on your side sweetening it with cooked words. Τον δήμον αεί προσποιού υπογλυκαίνων ρηματίοις μαγειρικοίς. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Knights 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Words should be weighed and not counted. 5 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Everything has been said, provided words do not change their meanings, and meanings their words. — from the film Alphaville (1965) 5 likes |
