The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'
View quotes by Larry HardimanIn comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
View quotes by Pliny The ElderThe word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order'. Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.
View quotes by Prince MetternichA synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
View quotes by Burt BacharachOur language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
View quotes by Paul TillichLanguage... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
View quotes by Paul TillichThe word 'civilization' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
View quotes by Henry MillerThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
View quotes by Tennessee WilliamsThe word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
View quotes by Norman TebbitA swear-word in a rustic slum
A simple swear-word is to some,
To Masefield something more.
View quotes by Max BeerbohmI never use the word 'nation' in speaking of the United States. I always use the word 'Union' or 'Confederacy.' We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.
View quotes by John CalhounI think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical." [on his style of business]
View quotes by Ivan BoeskyI'm very excited with this team because they are 'playerish' - if there is such a word - they love to play [making up a word about his team]
View quotes by Arsene WengerI would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
View quotes by J G BallardA word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
View quotes by Charles PeguyOne 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.
View quotes by Euripides'It is by no means enough that an officer be capable...He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.'
View quotes by John Paul JonesNever use a long word when a short one will do
View quotes by Louisa May AlcottThe best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
View quotes by Napoleon BonaparteBill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
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