Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian

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

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

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
Honore de Balzac

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
Donatella Versace

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

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz

Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Marshall McLuhan

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

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.
Werner Heisenberg

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.

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
John Stuart Mill