—The Language We Speak (or not): A Compilation of Quotes—

“Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
~from The Little Prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

“Language has three important uses–it expresses thought, conceals thought, and takes the place of thought.”
~Unknown

“Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.”
~Dionysius of Halicarnassus

“Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.”
~Pearl Strachan

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
~Robert Frost

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”
C.S. Lewis

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
~Buddha

“Great minds talk about ideas, Average minds talk about things, Small minds talk about other people.”
~Unknown

“Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.”
~Publilius Syrus

“Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”
~Ira Gassen

“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
~Henry B. Adams

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
~Plato

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
~Ambrose Bierce

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
~Orson Rega Card

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