- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
- Omit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Omit needless words.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well-written words are music.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fool and his words are soon parted.
- Convey
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- Nov 07, 2020