| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Av ord blir buken inte full. | Ordspråk från Ryssland |
| Bakom skämtsamma ord ligger ofta mycket allvar. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Bevingade ord: mås, duva, hök. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Bra sagt! Jag undrar var du snott det. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Den som aldrig finner de rätta orden, gör ingen lycka här på jorden. | Frithiof Brandt (1892-1968) |
| Den som avvisar lovord blir lovordad två gånger. | Frithiof Brandt (1892-1968) |
| Den som fyller sitt huvud med andras ord hittar ingenstans att göra av sina egna. | Frithiof Brandt (1892-1968) |
| Den som har ordet i sin makt , tror ofta samma om tanken | Frithiof Brandt (1892-1968) |
| Den som hör väl, talar väl. | Ordspråk från Egypten |
| Den som väger sina ord märker snart att de tomma inte alltid är bortkastade. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Det ena order ger det andra. | Nordisk Ordtak |
| Det finns inga nyckelord till låsta människor. | Ordspråk från Ryssland |
| Det finns två hjälpverb: "att ljuga" och "att stjäla". | Ordspråk från Ryssland |
| Det händer att man vaknar om natten och kastar ner några ord snabbt på närmaste papper, på kanten av en tidning (orden strålar av mening!) men på morgonen: samma ord säger ingenting längre, klotter, felsägningar. Eller fragment av den stora nattliga stilen som drog förbi? | Tomas Tranströmer |
| Det är lättare att hålla tal än ord. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Det är med ord som med krabbor - även om de är nästan tomma kan de nypas. | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| Det är med ord som med solstrålar: ju mer de koncentreras, desto djupare bränner de. | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| Det är underligt att man med de relativt få orden som finns i språket, kan säga så mycket strunt. | Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) |
| Dina ord är min föda, dina andetag mitt vin. Du är mitt allt. | Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) |
| Du är herre över det ord som inte är sagt. Det uttalade ordet är herre över dig. | Engelsk Ordtak |
| En del ljuger med ord - andra med hela sitt liv. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| En del ord är så stora att de är svåra att hålla. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| En skarp tunga är det enda som blir skarpare ju mer den används. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| Endast i de kretsar där ord är kilovara behöver man väga dem. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Entusiasm är jordens vackraste ord. | Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) |
| Ett gott ord värmer mer än en god sup. | Engelsk Ordtak |
| Ett ord kan inte vara vare sig oanständigt eller anständigt. | Aksel Sandemose (1899-1965) |
| Ett ord är ett ord, men många ord miskar i värde och blir bara till ett tal. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Fisk fångar man med krok, män med ord och kvinnor med grannlåt. | Bo Setterlind |
| Fula ord förpestar luften. | Bo Setterlind |
| Fyra ord som ej bör glömmas, födas, leva, dö och dömas. | Einar Skjæraasen (1900-1966) |
| Ge mig ett ord jag kan sova på när natten faller på. | Einar Skjæraasen (1900-1966) |
| Genom ord är sinnet bevingad. | Aristofanes (450 f.Kr.-388 f.Kr.) |
| Gick du innan du fick sagt orden du kom för att säga? | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Goda ord kostar inte. | Ordspråk från Nederländerna |
| Goda ord är bättre än guld. | Gammelt Ordtak |
| Guds ord får man aldrig för mycket av, sa mannen, kastade Bibeln i huvudet på sin fru. | Västerbotten |
| Han märkte aldrig ord. Han märkte uttal. | Arnulf Overland |
| Hela mitt liv har jag sökt ett ord som skulle gå från mitt hjärta till ditt. | Arnulf Overland |
| I begynnelsen var ordet - på slutet frasen. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| I begynnelsen var ordet och inte pladdret. Till sist kommer propagandan att försvinna till förmån för ordet. | Gottfried Benn (1886-1956) |
| I begynnelsen var Ordet. Ordet var hos Gud och Ordet var Gud. | Bibelen |
| Ibland väger orden så tungt att man inte får dem över läpparna. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Inget är mer patetiskt än de ord människan säger till sig själv. | Olaf Bull |
| Inget är så vältaligt som en skallerorm stjärt. | Algonkin-indianskt ordspråk |
| Jag saknar inte bara livets mening, jag saknar till och med ord för att uttrycka den. | Bibelen |
| Ju flera ord, desto större tomhet. | Bibelen |
| Kallt te och kallt ris går an, men kalla ord tål ingen. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Kloka ord ska upprepas då och då annars försvinner de, som spår i sanden. | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Kunde du förlåta dig själv för orden du aldrig sjöng? | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Lyckligtvis kan tillräckligt välvalda ord täcka över de mest förfärliga fakta | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| Låt oss fatta oss kort. Världen är överbefolkad av ord. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Låt oss fatta oss kort. Världen är överbefolkad med ord. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Låt oss inte vara kräsna när vi väljer ord; - inte på tu man hand i alla fall | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Man behöver bara byta ett par ord med vissa människor för att inse att man bytt ner sig. | Stig Johansson (1936-) |
| Man bör undvika främmande ord om man har en adekvat inhemsk vokabulär disponibel. | Al Capone (1899-1947) |
| Man kommer längre med vänliga ord och en laddad pistol än med enbart vänliga ord. | Al Capone (1899-1947) |
| Man skall läsa som det står skrivet. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Många kloka ord sägs på skämt, ännu fler dumma sägs på allvar. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Många ord har vandrat länge till fots innan de blev bevingade. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Många ord vandrar länge till fots innan de blir bevingade. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| Människan skapade tron och kallade den Gud | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Naturen har gett människan en tunga, men två öron, för att vi ska höra dubbelt så mycket som vi säger. | Latinskt ordspråk |
| Ord har slagit fler än svärd. | Max Tau (1896-1976) |
| Ord kan bränna mer än eld. | Max Tau (1896-1976) |
| Ord kryddar inte soppan. | Ordspråk från Brasilien |
| Ord lever längre än gärningar. | Pindar |
| Ord som viskas, hörs långt. | Ukjent |
| Ord utan tanke är som en fot utan muskler. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Ord uttrycker inte tankar särskilt bra. Omedelbart efter att de uttalats blir de lite annorlunda, lite förvridna, lite löjliga. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Ord är blott tankens tecken. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Ord är bra, men höns lägger ägg. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Ord är handlingar. | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) |
| Ord är som röntgenstrålar när man använder dem rätt. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Ord, ord, ord. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Orden har vingar, men flyger inte alltid dit vi önskar. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Orden är jordens döttrar, men handlingar och begivenheter är himlens söner. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Order är en naturkraft. | Sigurd Hoel |
| Ordet från munnen och stenen från handen kan inte tagas tillbaka. | Ordspråk från Arabländerna |
| Pennan skär oftare djupare än svärdet. | Norsk Ordtak |
| Presenterar härmed "lite", det nya sättet att stava "light", med 20% färre bokstäver! | Georg Brandes (1842-1927) |
| Ringa är makten i det bly som blev till kulor, mot makten i det bly som blev till skrift. | Georg Brandes (1842-1927) |
| Rätt ord fördriver kval och läker själens sår. | Grekiskt ordspråk |
| Rätt ord fördriver kval och läker själens sår. | Menander (342 f.Kr.-292 f.Kr.) |
| Sagda ord är som en vid; ingen vet vart den går och ifall den kommer tillbaka som en orkan. | Ordspråk från Rumänien |
| Sagt ord kommer aldrig igen. | Horats |
| Sanna ord är inte alltid vackra, vackra ord är inte alltid sanna. | Ordspråk från Kina |
| Sanna ord är inte vackra, vackra ord är inte sanna. | Ordspråk från Kina |
| Smiles är det längsta ordet i det engelska språket. Det är en mile mellan första och sista bokstaven. | Bibelen |
| Som gyllene äpplen på ett silverfat, är ord sagda i rättan tid. | Bibelen |
| Som ordbrukare måste man tänka på bokstavsskötseln. | Kalle & Hobbe |
| Stadsbiblioteket? Informationsdisken, tack. Hallå? Ja, jag vill ha ett ord definierat. Jo, det är det som är problemet. Jag kan inte stava det och jag är inte tillåten att säga det. Kan du dra alla svordomar du kan så stoppar jag dig när...Hallå? | Kalle & Hobbe |
| Stora ord och fett fläsk fastnar inte i halsen. | Ordspråk från Danmark |
| Sår av svärd kan botas, inte sår av ord. | Japanskt ordspråk |
| Säg inte lite i många ord dock mycket i få. | Pythagoras (569 f.Kr.-475 f.Kr.) |
| Ta mig på allt, bara inte på ordet. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Tala är silver, tiga är guld. | Ordspråk från Egypten |
| Tankar är fria. Orden registreras. | Nicolaus Cybinski |
| Tio mått ord har givits denna världen; av dem har kvinnorna tagit nio och männen ett. | Margareta von Konow (1917-) |
| Tonfallet kan säga mycket mer än orden. | Margareta von Konow (1917-) |
| Två av språkets grymmaste ord: FÖR SENT. | Margareta von Konow (1917-) |
| Upp flyga orden, tanken stilla står. Ord utan tanke aldrig himlen når. | Henrik Groth (1903-1983) |
| Utan är ord är vi djur. | Henrik Groth (1903-1983) |
| Vackra och vänliga ord är för kvinnan som en kär gåva, som hon tar fram och fröjdar sig åt när hon är ensam. De förnyar hennes kärlek, de skänker henne ökad livsglädje och hon ser sitt jag lysa av dem som ädelstenar lyser upp hennes yttre. | Ordspråk från Indien |
| Varför är "förkortningar" ett så långt ord? | Ordspråk från Indien |
| Varken ett dödligt gift eller ett skarpslipat svärd är hälften så ödesdigert som onda ord. | Ordspråk från Indien |
| Vissa ord kan endast användas i överdriven betydelse. Ofta kan man höra en människa säga att hon är "halvdöd" (mest av trötthet). Däremot händer det knappast att en läkare undersöker en svårt sjuk patient och sedan meddelar de oroliga anhöriga, att patienten är halvdöd. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Värdesätt dina ord. De kan bli dina sista. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Är det inte orden som skiljer oss från varandra? Är det inte orden som är mänsklighetens förbannelse? | Agnar Mykle |
| Ett ord til den vise er nok, og mange ord fyller ikke skjeppen. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Ord er kun bobler i vannet. Gjerninger dråper av gull. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Ord brukes til tre ting: Til å utrykke tanker. Til å skjule tanker. Og til å dekke over der ingen tanker er. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Ord er som røntgenstråler, når man anvender dem rigtigt. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| En intellektuel er en, der bruger flere ord end nødvendigt på at sige mere, end han ved. | Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Den, som har for mange ord, kan kun være alene. | Elias Canetti (1905-1994) |
| Den, som ikke har noget at tænke, skaffer sig det i ordbogen. | Elias Canetti (1905-1994) |
| Ord, der ikke lægger til, trækker fra. | Frithiof Brandt (1892-1968) |
| Velsignet er det menneske, som når han ingenting har at sige, afstår fra at bekræfte kendsgerningen med ord. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Når man savner ideer, er ord et praktisk alternativ. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Behersk emnet, så vil ordene følge af sig selv. | Marcus Porcius Cato (95 f.Kr.-46 f.Kr.) |
| Ord var oprindelig trolddom. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Det er pudsigt, at der med de relativt få Ord, som findes i Sproget, kan siges så meget Sludder. | Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) |
| Et ord ligner bien, det har honning og brod. | Talmud (400-) |
| The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. | A. L. Kitselman |
| If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. | Adrian Forsyth |
| The paper burns, but the words fly away. | Ben Joseph Akiba (40-135) |
| There are eight words or references that light up employers' eyes: languages, computer, experience, achievement, hard-working, overseas experience, flexible, and task-oriented. | Carol Kleiman |
| Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind | Charles Fillmore |
| Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in | Dennis Potter (1935-1994) |
| If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. | Dennis Roch |
| Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words | Douglas Meador |
| Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words | Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928-) |
| Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys. | Emma Bull |
| A whole page of learned polysyllables may not convey as much as the statement that a certain woman is a bitch, or that a certain man is a jerk | Eric Berne (1910-1970) |
| There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words | Francis Herbert Bradley (1846-1924) |
| There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life | Frederika Bremer |
| They're not understudies, they're overstudies. | George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) |
| It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was composed by Haydn; if they can't then it wasn't | Gervase Hughes (1905-) |
| Almost all words do have color and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too | Gladys Taber |
| Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power. | H. R. Haweis (1838-1901) |
| When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning | Hanns Johst (1890-1978) |
| It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises but only performance is reality. | Harold S. Geneen (1910-1997) |
| Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be performed and swift, elusive truths may be touched; often they are clumsy tools with which we grope in the dark toward truths more inaccessible but no less s | Helen Merell Lynd |
| Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is | Herbert Kaufman |
| The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind. | Hortense Calisher (1911-) |
| May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door. | Irish Blessings |
| If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. | J. B. Phillips |
| The words walked right out of my mouth. | James Brady (1968-) |
| Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them. | James J. Jordan, Jr. |
| We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. | Jane Fonda (1937-) |
| Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. | John McCain (1936-) |
| Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass | John Vanbrugh, Sr. |
| Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work | Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) |
| Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience | Julian Sorrell Huxley |
| I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling. | Lech Walesa (1943-1983) |
| Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad. | Manly Hall (1901-1990) |
| I didn't know the full facts of life until I was 17. My father never talked about his work. | Martin Freud |
| Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people. | Mohammed Reza Pahlavi |
| Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken | Orson Rega Card |
| The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. | Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) |
| When deeds speak, words are nothing. | Pierre Joseph Proudhon |
| Jesus is just a word I use to swear with | Richard Harris (1930-2002) |
| I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. | Richard Wright (1908-1960) |
| Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him | Robert Leighton |
| What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men | Samuel Warren |
| The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove. | Selwyn Hughes |
| To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time | Smiley Blanton |
| Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. | Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) |
| Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. | Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692) |
| A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. | Warren Spahn (1921-) |
| Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. | Wendell Johnson (1906-1965) |
| But words once spoke can never be recalled | Wentworth Dillon |
| Word of mouth is the best medium of all. | William Bernbach (1911-1982) |
| The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. | William H. Gass |
| We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. | William J. Brennan, Jr. |
| Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl. | Alicia Silverstone (1976-) |
| There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. | Anne Sophie Swetchine |
| The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education | Antisthenes |
| Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| A gentle word opens an iron gate | Bulgarian Proverb |
| Poetry is the deification of reality. | Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) |
| "The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell | Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) |
| Words have no power to impress the mind with the exquisite horror of their reality | Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) |
| I really really wanna see Lenny Kravitz 'cause I wanna be his rockchick! | Emma Bunton (1976-) |
| Deeds are fruits, words are leaves | English Proverb |
| I put the words down and push them a bit. | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker | Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) |
| Many words are poverty. | Greek proverb |
| The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. | Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) |
| Words were with them forms of expression which varied with individuals, but falsehood was more or less necessary to all | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| A word to the wise is infuriating. | Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (1939-) |
| I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance. | Imelda Marcos (1930-) |
| One kind word can warm three winter months. | Japanese Proverb |
| A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever | Jessamyn West (1902-1984) |
| A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing | John Tillotson |
| Words are the small change of thought | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. | Jr. Kingman Brewster (1919-1988) |
| The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies | Pauline Kael (1919-2001) |
| Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. | Paul Engle (1908-1991) |
| What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people? | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| Anything that begins "I don't know how to tell you this" is never good news | Ruth Gordon (1896-1985) |
| It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works. | Tiger Woods (1975-) |
| In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl' | Tom Lehrer (1928-) |
| 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 | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.' | William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) |
| A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising. | Yasmine Bleeth (1968-) |
| Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. | Frank Outlaw |
| May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door. | Irish Blessings |
| The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles | Chinese Proverbs |
| I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| No words are necessary between two loving hearts | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. | Ray Bradbury (1920-) |
| Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. | Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) |
| Music is only love looking for words | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Vows are spoken, to be broken - feelings are intense, words are trivial - pleasures remain, so does the pain - words are meaningless, and forgettable. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. | Ernest Gaines |
| Words divide us, actions unite us. | Tupamoros |
| For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. | Ingrid Bengis (1915-1982) |
| Klumpe Dumpe: Når jeg anvender et ord, så betyder det lige hvad jeg vil have, det skal betyde. Alice:"Men spørgsmålet er, om du kan få ordene til at betyde vidt forskellige ting. K: Spørgsmålet er, hvem det er, der bestemmer - det er det afgørende. | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
| Words are the physicians of a mind diseased | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| A word uttered cannot be taken back | African Proverb |
| A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not | African Proverb |
| Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're peirced. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. | Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) |
| The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| "Therefore" is a word the poet must not know. | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| The word now is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. | Arthur Miller (1915-2005) |
| A word too much always defeats its purpose | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. | Barbra Streisand (1942-) |
| I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something. | Barbra Streisand (1942-) |
| Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. | Ben Jonson (1572-1637) |
| There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. | Bette Davis (1908-1989) |
| Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones | Bible |
| Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing | Bible |
| The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts | Bible |
| The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords | Bible |
| When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise | Bible |
| Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar | Bible |
| We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family. | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes | Cher (1946-) |
| In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Command is lonely. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is "to be prepared | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is test. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself. | David Ogilvy (1911-1999) |
| "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language | Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) |
| The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. | Edward de Bono |
| You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart | Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) |
| A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just begins to live that day. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| Many a true word is spoken in jest | English Proverb |
| We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| All our words from loose using have lost their edge | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place | French Proverb |
| To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Syllables govern the world. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Words are women, deeds are men | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| All words are pegs to hang ideas on. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of. | Irish Proverb |
| A quarrel is like buttermilk, once it's out of the churn; the more you shake it, the more sour it grows | Irish Sayings |
| English is a funny language. A fat chance and a slim chance are the same thing | Jack Herbert |
| I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive. | James Agee (1909-1955) |
| If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| What Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Words are loaded pistols | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. | Jesse Jackson (1941-) |
| Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. | Jim Rohn |
| We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Words are but pictures of our thoughts. | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. | John McCain (1936-) |
| These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Just get the right syllable in the proper place. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality | Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) |
| Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence | Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) |
| There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. | Lyn Yutang (1895-1976) |
| In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Use the right word and not its second cousin | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds. | Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) |
| Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| 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 (1809-1894) |
| Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken | Orson Rega Card |
| A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn't | Persian Proverb |
| In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) |
| Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| I can tell you in two words: I'm possible | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| Words are but the signs of ideas. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled | Spanish Proverb |
| If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad. | Terry Pratchett (1948-) |
| The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Good words cost no more than bad. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Words are both better and worse than thoughts; they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin | Tryon Edwards |
| A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not | Turkish Proverb |
| Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| One great use of words is to hide our thoughts | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. | Wendell Johnson (1906-1965) |
| Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| Words are the only things that last forever | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Speak comfortable words! | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Words without thoughts never to heaven go. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| During my life, I have often had to eat my own words, and on the whole I have found them a wholesome diet | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Å ville er ikke å si at man vil, det er å handle. | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| å, som enhver narr kan leke med ord! | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Av alt levende er mennesket det eneste som drikker uten å være tørst, spiser uten å være sulten og snakker uten å ha noe å si. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| De vennlige ordene som sier i dag, kan bære frukt i morgen. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Den som vokter sin munn og sin tunge, frir sitt liv fra trengsler. | Bibelen |
| Det er etter de gode ord det gror, ikke etter småskårenhet og pirkeri. Det har ennå ikke flyttet verden et lusefjed. | Johan Falkberget (1879-1967) |
| Det er forferdende å reflektere over hvordan et enkelt, ubetenksomt ord kan føre til katastrofe somme tider. | P. G. Wodehouse (1881-) |
| Det er ingen som forspør seg, men mange som forsnakker seg. | Ordtak |
| Det er med ord som med solstråler; jo mer de konsentreres, desto dypere brenner de. | James Joyce (1882-1941) |
| Det levende ord er kort og godt den enkle forskjell på skitt og kanel. | Klaus Rifbjerg |
| Det skjerper og forfiner tanken å beherske sitt språk, velge sine ord med omtanke og uttale dem vakkert. | Olfert Ricard |
| Det skrevne består, det talte forgår. | Italiensk Ordtak |
| Det som går ut av din munn, går inn i andres ører. | Ordtak |
| Det som skrives gjemmes. Det som sies glemmes. | Ordtak |
| Ditt ord er en lykt for min fot og et lys på min sti. Salm. 119:105. | Bibelen |
| Eit ord kan gjera jørulverk. | Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994) |
| Eit ord, eit vyrdlaust lite ord kan sløkkja mykjen fagnad. | Anders Hovden (1860-1943) |
| Et ord som sårer Straks en liten rift og blodet stivner til all hatets gift | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Gikk du før du fikk sagt ordet du kom for å si? | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Hold ordet hellig, ti vit at ordet er ånd! | Arnulf Øverland |
| Hun ga oss alltid et vennlig ord for mye. | Nils-Fredrik Nielsen (1945-) |
| Hvis du skal være spydig, må du være kort. For det er med ordene som med solstrålene - jo mer de konsentreres, jo dypere bunner de | Kongespeilet |
| Hvor mangt et hastig ord ville man ikke kjøpe tilbake med gull for å ha det usagt. | Kongespeilet |
| Hvor mangt et hastig ord ville man ikke kjøpe tilbake med gull for å ha usagt. | Snorre Sturlason |
| I begynnelsen var ordet. Men enden er ennå ikke å se. | Wolfgang Eschker |
| Ingen som skrev fikk sagt alt, ingen som leste fikk med seg alt. | Jacob Paludan (1896-1975) |
| Intet annet enn det frie ord kan frelse mennesket og fri vår jord. | Arnulf Øverland |
| Jeg er enda ikke så fortapt i leksikografi, at jeg glemmer at ord er jordens døtre. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Jeg får ord og meninger i munnen min som jeg tror jeg kanskje skal være litt mer forsiktig med. | Björn Rosengren |
| Jeg har brukne ben, ikke fra steiner og stokker, men fra navn som du kaller meg. | Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) |
| Jeg har lært meg ordene, de har vist meg tingene. | Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) |
| Jeg kan ikke tenke meg noen som er større i kjeften enn de som sier at de har lagt de store ordene bak seg og bare forholder seg til de små ordene. | Stein Mehren (1935-) |
| Komplimenter bør innhaleres som parfyme, ikke svelges. | Olaf Bull |
| Man må aldri forelske seg i ordene. Da forfører den en straks til filologi. | Olaf Bull |
| Mange kloke ord blir sagt i spøk. Dessverre blir i langt høyere grad dumme ord sagt i fullt alvor. | Søren Kierkegaard |
| Men hugse det bør vi: Eit ord er eit under. | Tor Jonsson (1916-1951) |
| Milde ord er som en strøm av honning, søte for sjelen og en legedom for kroppen. | Bibelen |
| Når et ord er sluppet løs, kan ikke ti ville hester innhente det. | Japansk Ordtak |
| Når munnen er lukket, forsnakker man seg ikke. | Ordtak |
| Og mennesker forsker og søker i stjerner og hav og jord han gransker i lærde bøker og finner gylne ord. | Arnulf Øverland |
| Også ord er handlinger, og et av hovedpunktene for et skrivende menneske i dag er å få ordene til å bety noe igjen. | Jens Bjørneboe |
| Også ordet kan være en knebel. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Ord - taushetens lenker. | Hans-Horst Skupy |
| Ord er byggesteiner. De kan nyttes til borgbygging eller til brobygging. | David Kvebæk |
| Ord er kun sten, er maven tom. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Ord? Som verden så forakter? | Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845) |
| Ordtak er lang erfaring fortalt i korthet. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Poesi - de beste ordene i den beste orden. Prosa - ord ordnet på beste måte. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Sår skapt av sverd kan heles, ikke sår frembragt av ord. | Japansk Ordtak |
| Si ikke det første som faller deg inn. | Kenyansk Ordtak |
| Stillhet mellom ordene gir fylde til ordene | Erik Lerdahl |
| Store ord og fleskefeitt sit ikke fast i halsen. | Ordtak |
| Stryk ikke språkets gamle gloser før du har skapt de nye ord! | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Tanker er frie. Ordene blir iakttatt. | Nicolaus Cybinski |
| Trøstende ord, sagt på en fin måte, er den eldste terapi menneskeheten kjenner. | Louis Nizer |
| Tungen er som en sylskarp kniv, du kan drepe uten at blod strømmer. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| Vårt liv vil enten sette en strek under eller en strek over det vi sier | Johannes Smemo |