| "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 |
| "Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself." »John Harold |
| "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 |
| "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below words without thoughts never to heaven go." »William Shakespeare |
| "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 |
| "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Value your words. Each one may be the last." »Stanislaw Lec |
| "Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." »Wendell Johnson |
| "The best of us must sometimes eat our words." »J. K. Rowling |
| "The body says what words cannot." »Martha Graham |
| "Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few." »Pythagorus |
| "Lying is done with words and also with silence." »Adrienne Rich |
| "The fewer the words, the better the prayer." »Martin Luther |
| "Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words." »Chuang-tzu |
| "words must be weighed, not counted." »Polish Proverb |
| "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by." »Oprah Winfrey |
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