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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'
View quotes by Larry Hardiman
I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical." [on his style of business]
View quotes by Ivan Boesky
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
View quotes by Tennessee Williams
In 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 Elder
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
View quotes by Burt Bacharach
I'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 Wenger
A swear-word in a rustic slum
A simple swear-word is to some,
To Masefield something more.
View quotes by Max Beerbohm
The 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 Tebbit
Our 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 Tillich
The 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 Miller
Language... 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 Tillich
The 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 Metternich
I 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 Calhoun
The Greeks had a word for it.
View quotes by Zoe Akins
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
View quotes by André Gide
What's another word for Thesaurus?
View quotes by Steven Wright
Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything!
View quotes by Steve Martin
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
View quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
A word to the wise is enough.
View quotes by Titus Maccius Plautus
There is only one word for it: it's got be a foul.
View quotes by Brendan Foster
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Proverbs:
A Man Is Judged By His Deeds, Not By His Words
A Picture Paints A Thousand Words
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword
Many A True Word Is Spoken In Jest
Use Soft Words And Hard Arguments
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Fine Words Butter No Parsnips
A Man Of Words And Not Of Deeds Is Like A Garden Full Of Weeds
He Who Lives By The Sword Shall Die By The Sword
Once A Word Leaves Your Mouth, You Cannot Chase It Back Even With The Swiftest Horse
Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Words Watch Your Words, They Become Actions, Watch Your Actions, They Become Habits, Watch Your Habits, They Become Characer Watch Your Character, It Becomes Your Destiny
A Proverb Is A True Word
When Words Are Many, Sin Is Not Absent, But He Who Holds His Tongue Is Wise
A Man That Breaks His Word Bids Other Be False To Him
Gluttony Kills More Than The Sword
Too Funny For Words
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