There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
James Baldwin

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
Hermann Goering

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
Al Sharpton

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.
Gottfried Leibniz

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Billy Connolly

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando

If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.
Billie Joe Armstrong

The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler

Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
Ray Kroc

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Peter Tosh

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
Neil Gaiman