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I am the master of my unspoken words, and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.

Ashley Anon

Four-word story of failure: Hired, tired, mired, fired.

Unknown

A careless word may kindle strife.A cruel word may wreck a life.A timely word may level stress.A loving word may heal and bless.

Unknown

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Felics Bible

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.

Maxwell Planck

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Clifford Stoll

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.

William Shakespeare

Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.

William Shakespeare

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.

James Bryce

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

John Fowles

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

Edward Young

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Andre Maurois

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

William Shakespeare

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]

Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)

Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

Charles Churchill

When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!

William Shakespeare

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green.

William Cullen Bryant

Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. (2:29).

Hazrat Luke

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert South

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

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