For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me
--A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh character from author
A truly wise person uses few words;
a person with understanding is even-tempered.
--Proverbs 17:27
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty
with verbal extravagance.
--David Pratt
I've seen this done on TV.
-- Famous Last Words
... look at the word blame. It's just a coincidence that
the last two words spell the word me.
But that coincidence is worth thinking about.
--Arthur Freeman
What you deny to others will be denied to you,
for the plain reason that you are always legislating
for yourself; all your words and actions define
the world you want to live in.
--Thaddeus Golas
Whatever is expressed is impressed.
Whatever you say to yourself,
with emotion, generates thoughts,
ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
--Brian Tracy
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.
--Pearl Strachan
I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
--William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew.
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
--Confucius
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed,
the deeper they burn
--Robert Southey (1774-1843)
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
--E.Y. Harbug (1898 - 1981)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
--Mother Teresa
We have too many high sounding words,
and too few actions that correspond with them.
--Abigail Adams in a letter to John Adams, 1774
Actions can say more than words,
but without words actions can be meaningless.
--Michael McEwan
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
--Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Omit needless words.
Vigorous writing is concise.
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words,
a paragraph no unnecessary sentences,
for the same reason that a drawing
should have no unnecessary lines
and a machine no unnecessary parts.
--William Strunk, Jr. "The Elements of Style"
Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
--Buddha
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak
Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break.
--William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV, iii
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. T
hey make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image
on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
--Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind -
give it more thought.
--Dennis Roth
The Gettysberg Address has 272 words.
A bag of Lay's potato chips has 401 words
--Unknown
Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare
with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.
--Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980) Humorist
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words
--Aprocrypha
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can,
but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation,
but to be understood.
--William Penn
Actions lie louder than words.
--Carolyn Wells
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
--Frank Outlaw
Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.
By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us
that defines our humanity.
--Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Words are meaningless. It is the way they are said that gives them meaning.
--Unknown
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