Word Quotes

A word to the wise is enough. (Plautus)
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. View quote
Al Capone
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Word is a shadow of a deed. View quote
Democritus
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. View quote
Mark Twain
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. View quote
Graham Greene
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life that word is love. View quote
Sophocles
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. View quote
Sydney Smith
This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. View quote
Fidel Castro
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. (Ivan Turgenev)
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. View quote
George Eliot
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Fear is just another word for ignorance. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness. View quote
Samuel Beckett
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing. (Barbara Stanwyck)
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. View quote
Pliny the Elder
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. View quote
Robert Benchley
A word after a word after a word is power. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Word - that invisible dagger. View quote
Emil Cioran