Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Words

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Common Proverb

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should
Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters

The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) American Psychologist, Advice Columnist

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle (b.1947) American Head of State, Politician, Elected Rep

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card (b.1951) American Author

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Thomas Reid (1710–96) Scottish Philosopher, Clergyman

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.
Unknown

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras (570–495 BCE) Greek Philosopher

The last word is the most dangerous of infernal machines, and the husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell.
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–57) English Writer, Dramatist, Wit

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher

The true poem rests between the words.
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American Novelist, Poet, Actress

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

Be careful of the words you say,
Keep them short and sweet.
You never know, from day to day,
Which ones you’ll have to eat.
Anonymous

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word.
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard (1864–1910) French Writer, Diarist

A word uttered cannot be taken back
African Proverb

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning-flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing as the lightning. 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 oblivion.
Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–86) Irish Prelate, Philologist, Poet

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American Head of State

It’s a writer’s job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.
Stephen King (b.1947) American Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Screenwriter, Columnist, Film Director

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in
Dennis Potter (1935–94) English Television Playwright

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
Hannah Arendt (1906–75) German-American Philosopher, Political Theorist

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man’s inmost parts
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

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