Sentence Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old sentence quotes, sentence sayings, and sentence proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

For each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him ... another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second. Philip K. Dick
Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow. Max Lucado
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.
Leaves are words on tree branch sentences, each breeze punctuates as it pleases. Terri Guillemets
When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins. Louis-Ferdinand Celine