The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
William J. Clinton

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
Charles Manson

Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
William Bernbach

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

Good words will not give me back my children.
Chief Joseph

Words do not pay for my dead people.
Chief Joseph

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Chief Joseph

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de Montaigne

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.
Christopher Walken

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
George Edward Woodberry