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299 quotesToday's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens.
News
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Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Ideas
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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
Words
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Work is a four letter word!
Work
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You can stroke people with words.
Words
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
History and Historians
Henry Vaughan
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. [Last words of Pancho Villa]
Famous Last Words
Pancho Villa
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Fate
Voltaire
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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Words
Izaak Walton
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Words
Evelyn Waugh
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Actions lie louder than words.
Action
Carolyn Wells
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Experience
Alfred North Whitehead
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Books - Reading
Walt Whitman
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!
Regret
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Action
John Greenleaf Whittier
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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Hypocrisy
Oscar Wilde
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
Brotherhood
Tennessee Williams
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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Words
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Vocabulary
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Words
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Words
Virginia Woolf
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Words
Steven Wright
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Words
Yiddish Proverb
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Learning
Edward Young
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun