Word Quotes

Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness. (Samuel Beckett)
A word to the wise is enough. View quote
Plautus
Fear is just another word for ignorance. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word. View quote
Aeschylus
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. View quote
Horace
Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right. View quote
Sophocles
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. View quote
Al Capone
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! View quote
Audrey Hepburn
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. View quote
Pythagoras
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Word is a shadow of a deed. View quote
Democritus
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. View quote
Mark Twain
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. View quote
Graham Greene
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life that word is love. View quote
Sophocles
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. View quote
Sydney Smith
This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. View quote
Fidel Castro
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. (George Eliot)
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
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