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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
Words have weight, sound, and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1948Biography1 quote
Words being arbitrary must owe their power to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them. Language is the dress of thought. — Samuel Johnson · 1779Drama1 quote
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989Drama (film)1 quote
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989Legal writing1 quote
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. · 1918Philosophical literature1 quote
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Political literature1 quote
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Political writing1 quote
Dictionaries are but the depositories of words already legitimated by usage. Society is the work-shop in which new ones are elaborated. When an individual uses a new word, if illformed it is rejected in society, if well-informed, adopted, and, after due time, laid up in the depository of dictionaries. — Thomas Jefferson · 1820Religious literature1 quote
It is not what enters the mouth that defiles the person, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles the person.” — Jesus · 60Teen1 quote
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989Teen (film)1 quote
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989