Words Quotes

Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

He multiplieth words without knowledge.

~ Bible

If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

~ Bible

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

~ Samuel Johnson

Let thy speech be short comprehending much in few words.

~ Bible

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

~ Lord Byron

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived and those that are at present respectable will drop out if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

~ Horace

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

~ Nathanael West

Soft words are hard arguments.

~ Thomas Fuller

Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

~ Aldous Huxley

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

~ Clifton Fadiman

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

~ Ned Rorem

The two most beautiful words in the English language are cheque enclosed.

~ Dorothy Parker

The medium is the message.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

~ Ecclesiasticus

The thoughtless are rarely wordless.

~ Howard W. Newton

We must have a better word than prefabricated why not ready-made?

~ Winston Churchill

We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words are the small change of thought.

~ Jules Renard

Words should be weighed and not counted.

~ Yiddish Proverb

Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts man comes pretty close to living in a house that language built.

~ Russell R. W. Smith

If a conceptual distinction is to be made the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language it cannot be made conceptually.

~ N. R. Hanson

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

~ Christian Morgenstern

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

~ William Gibson

Who does not know another language does not know his own.

~ Goethe

To me the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe comfortable middle-of-the road policy. Above all our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road is the noblest task of the future.

~ Christian Morgenstern

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

~ Matthew Prior

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

~ Aeschylus

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

~ Max Weinreich

The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

~ Michel De Montaigne

A single word often betrays a great design.

~ Jean Baptiste Racine

Words once spoken can never be recalled.

~ Wentworth Dillon

Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

~ William Jovanovich

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

~ Mark Twain