#words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#deal #few #great #great deal #hazard

Silence is better than unmeaning words. ↗

— Pythagoras

#silence #than #words

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#few #great #great deal #little #many

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#different #funnier #good #good reason #i

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#approbation #become #caused #completely #cross

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. ↗

— Paul Valery

#finds #great #history #may #seeks

Good words cool more than cold water. ↗

— John Ray

#cold #good #good words #more #than

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#coward #fight #i #words

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. ↗