“ Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ”
- Paul Tillich- Copy
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“ For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!". ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 85
“ Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity — it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ”
- John Keats- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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“ The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all.". ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
- 424
“ These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Tears are the noble language of eye;And when true love of words is destitute,The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him. ”
- L. Estrange- Copy
- 1K
“ The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them. ”
- David Lloyd George- Copy
- 613
“ It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation. ”
- Michel De Certeau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.". ”
- Malcolm De Chazal- Copy
- 2.6K
“ What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd. ”
- John Dickinson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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