#word

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. ↗

— Kong Fu Zi

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Words are the money of fools. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#money #words

A picture is a poem without words. ↗

— Horace

#picture #poem #without #words

Puns are a form of humor with words. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#form #puns #words

Your words smell of corpses. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#smell #words #your

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

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Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#anymore #because #believe #good #goodness

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." ↗

— Joseph Addison

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