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Words Quotes No man means all he says,
and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought
is viscous. Abuse of words has been
the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and
division of society. A synonym is a word you
use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. A word is a bud attempting
to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen
which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. Words, as is well known,
are the great foes of reality. You can taste a word. Your words are my food,
your breath my wine. You are everything to me. For your born writer,
nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right
word. A blow with a word strikes
deeper than a blow with a sword. Short words are best
and the old words when short are best of all. Some of mankind's most
terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic
words or phrases. The basic tool for the
manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control
the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. A word is dead If the word has the potency
to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison
and destroy. Every word was once a
poem. When ideas fail, words
come in very handy. He pronounced some of
his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles. 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
the time in which it is used. Once a word has been
allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Words are, of course,
the most powerful drug used by mankind. We should have a great
many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they
are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. Do not the most moving
moments of our lives find us all without words? Words and deeds are far
from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone. Among my most prized
possessions are words that I have never spoken. It doesn't pay to say
too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings
the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle
till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about
the things you didn't say. Words must surely be
counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. Words sing. They hurt.
They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat
of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past. Words are weapons, and
it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. Man does not live by
words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. A fool and his words
are soon parted. If you would be pungent,
be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed,
the deeper they burn. For words divide and
rend Kind words can be short
and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Never lose a chance of
saying a kind word. Colors fade, temples
crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. It is the man who determines
what is said, not the words. The difference between
the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter -
'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. Don't use a big word
where a diminutive one will suffice. I love smooth words,
like gold-enameled fish |
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