Great Language Quotes

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
  
    Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)


Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

    Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952



For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

    Ingrid Bengis



Words have a longer life than deeds.

    Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), Nemean Odes



Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

    Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)



Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

    William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)



Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

    William Penn (1644 - 1718)



My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3


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Tom