Words

(260 votes)   Words of love, are works of love.

William R. Alger
1822-1905, American Writer

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(229 votes)   Thomas Jefferson -- still surv…

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(195 votes)   Life is like a penyou can cross outbut never erase

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(193 votes)   Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(190 votes)   And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(186 votes)   Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(177 votes)   By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes
BC 448-380, Greek Comic Poet, Satirist

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(177 votes)   Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(164 votes)   Now comes the mystery.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(149 votes)   A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(148 votes)   Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer

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(147 votes)   Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Julian S. Huxley
1877-1975, British Writer, Biologist

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(137 votes)   Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(123 votes)   Lord, let me live until I die.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(112 votes)   It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. [Dec. 14, 1977]

George Washington
1732-1799, First President of the USA

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