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Words are cheap. Words are meaningless. And yet I know there is value in them, when they are sincere.
That's how I gained a lifelong fondness for repeating certain phrases beyond the point of all reason.
The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.
Meaning is sometimes not what you say but how you say it.
In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.
There is life or death in words.
If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
A single fleeting word has the power to make or break a person.
If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
I have a way with words, & they have a way of lingering...
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.
The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.
Like a beautifully brightly colored flower without fragrance, is the well-spoken word without action.
Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.
Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ...
Whatever you do, trample down abuses, and love those who love you. Different translation: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing superstition, and love those who love you.
There are very few profound sayings in the world.
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a rule involves a patient search ... for the sentence in which every word is unalterable.
Words Have The Power To Change Us
When words lose the value ... nothing is left!
My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought.
This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain.
Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around.
I myself am more ready to distort a fine saying in order to patch it on to me than to distort the thread of my argument to go in search of one. [A]
Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Meaning is not something you can sell
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
Tadark, this phrase is probably meaningless to you as it is so oft repeated, but do be quiet.
Words are the jewels
That our homes are filled with
The tools that we strive with
Are but of words
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
I believe that you can change a life with just one word.
The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality.
The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.
No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.
Pick your words carefully as it has the power to make the sentence beautiful or ugly ...
Better than a thousand meaningless statements Is one meaningful word, Which, having been heard, Brings peace.
Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.
Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.
I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
One word can sometimes be sharper than a thousand swords
In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs ...
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
It is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort, which by daily use has almost lost its sense; yet on the ear of him who thought to die unmourned it will fall like choicest music.
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Pretty words are not always true, true words are not always pretty; and yet, they are still true.
A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.
The old phrases crack and meaning shakes out wet and new.
The world is built with words.
A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...
But a word once spoken who can recapture it?
If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
That words have the power to change us.
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
Words are not the essence but the garments of prayer.
Words stick, even when we don't want them to.
Things are often spoke and seldom meant.
It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
Words are the small change of thought.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Success will not come in one night, but one night success will come~coined in 2004
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.
Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can't change what you feel inside.
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.
Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.
...words can serve as a bomb or a balm..." -Harmony
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.
At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.Words-- Marty Rubin
As soon as ... begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody.