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When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Anonymous
3.6 · 8 votes · 183 reads
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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
Anonymous
4.1 · 49 votes · 108 reads
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius
PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC
3.7 · 24 votes · 97 reads
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Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.7 · 26 votes · 36 reads
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Words are all we have.
Salvador Dalí
PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century
4.5 · 9 votes · 120 reads
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Blake
PainterBritish1757 · 18th century
5.0 · 64 votes · 44 reads
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
French1754 · 18th century
4.5 · 22 votes · 77 reads
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Words are loaded pistols.
Jean Paul Sartre
WriterFrench1905 · 20th century
3.5 · 28 votes · 50 reads
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Samuel Beckett
WriterIrish1906 · 20th century
4.5 · 64 votes · 145 reads
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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard
WriterFrench1864 · 19th century
3.3 · 57 votes · 155 reads
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Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hardy
WriterBritish1840 · 19th century
3.5 · 61 votes · 46 reads
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Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard
WriterFrench1864 · 19th century
4.8 · 20 votes · 115 reads
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hardy
WriterBritish1840 · 19th century
4.1 · 15 votes · 56 reads
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Roy Lichtenstein
PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century
4.6 · 9 votes · 91 reads
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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
Adolf Hitler
PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century
4.7 · 12 votes · 56 reads
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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into obl
Anonymous
4.0 · 22 votes · 106 reads
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley
AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century
3.8 · 52 votes · 153 reads
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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century
3.3 · 9 votes · 37 reads
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace
PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC
3.7 · 53 votes · 61 reads
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century
4.1 · 40 votes · 193 reads
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You can stroke people with words.
Anonymous
4.8 · 18 votes · 2 reads
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the re
Dale Carnegie
WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century
3.1 · 55 votes · 166 reads
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