words Quotes

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.