Quotes 41 till 60 of 598.
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...whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains...
Pensees (1669) -
A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money.
Essay on man, manners and things (1769) -
A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details.
Politics and the English Language (1945) -
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Original:Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
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