Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old word quotes, word sayings, and word proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.George Eliot
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Words are soldiers of fortune, hired by different ideas.Maxwell Bodenheim
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Words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.Samuel Beckett
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.Chief Joseph
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Winston Churchill
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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.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Words are the great temptation.Marty Rubin
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.Josh Billings
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.Manly Hall
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Words once spoke can never be recall'd.Wentworth Dillon
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It is a world of words that creates a world of things.J. M. Coetzee
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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
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A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones that need the advice.Bill Cosby
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Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.Roy T. Bennett
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.Nathan Myhrvold
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Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.Samuel R. Delany
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The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.Natsuki Takaya
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.Jane Fonda
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The words of the world want to make sentences.Gaston Bachelard
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Words which enlighten some darken others.Edward Counsel
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Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.Anne Bradstreet
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.Zinedine Zidane
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No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.Philip Moeller
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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.Homer
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Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.Douglas Adams
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.Benjamin Franklin
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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.Charles Dickens