Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
Thomas Fuller

Widow. The word consumes itself.
Sylvia Plath

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
Euripides

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
George Lucas

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
Dave Barry

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Dave Barry

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
Charles Stanley

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
Neale Donald Walsch

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel Johnson

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.
Bodhidharma

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber