Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth--in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world--have not any subsistence without a mind.
He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
The words walked right out of my mouth.
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
It's only words...unless they're true.
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
Winged words.
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.
Lend me thy pen To write a word In the moonlight. Pierrot, my friend! My candle's out, I've no more fire;-- For love of God Open thy door! [Fr., Au clair de la lune Mon ami Pierrot, Prete moi ta plume Pour ecrire un mot; Ma chandelle est morte, Je n'ai plus de feu, Ouvre moi ta porte, Pour l'amour de Dieu.]
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Al-Ki [Indian word meaning "by and by"]
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
George Tenet's charm covers his arms as a velvet sheath covers a bloodied sword. *** George Tenet head of Murder Inc. whose agency has had Afghanis die under their interrogation cannot be trusted not to plant WMD's in Iraq.
Work is a four-letter word.