| "I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." »Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| "I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'." »William Shakespeare |
| "The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." »David McIntosh |
| "It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World" »Alfred North Whitehead |
| "Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber." »Ugo Betti |
| "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin |
| "Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words." »Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth." »Chief Joseph |
| "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." »Winston Churchill |
| "The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
| "Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier |
| "A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67." »Norman R. Augustine |
| "I understand a fury in your words, But not the words." »William Shakespeare |
| "The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." »A. L. Kitselman |
| "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." »Demosthenes |
| "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor." »Albert Einstein |
| "Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself." »John Harold |
| "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
| "Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart." »Sophocles |
| "Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong |
| "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below words without thoughts never to heaven go." »William Shakespeare |
| "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world." »David Dean Rusk |
| "Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage." »Babylonian Talmud |
| "I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie." »Walker Best |
| "Some people never say the words 'I love you' It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told." »Paul Simon |
| "What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed" »Michelangelo Buonarroti |
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