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| The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them |
| Stephen King |
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| The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. |
| Mark Twain |
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| The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. |
| Joseph Addison |
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| The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| The word now is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. |
| Arthur Miller |
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| The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts |
| Bible |
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| The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords |
| Bible |
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| There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. |
| Bette Davis |
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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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| These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. |
| John Steinbeck |
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| Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. |
| Socrates |
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| To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Use the right word and not its second cousin |
| Mark Twain |
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| We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. |
| Eric Hoffer |
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