From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.
Winston Churchill – Word, Preposition
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 – Words, Meaning
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 recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie – Words, Happiness
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams – Words, Abuse
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Henry Brooks Adams – Chaos
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Brooks Adams – Words
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain – word, writing
Lord Henry watched him, with his sad smile. He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. He felt intensely interested. He was amazed at the sudden impression that his words had produced, and, remembering a book that he had read when he was sixteen, which had revealed to him much that he had not known before, he wondered whether Dorian Gray was passing through the same experience.
