The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.
Woody Allen

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
Richard Dawkins

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Dolly Parton