I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image. — Moses ibn Ezra Copy Share Image
I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The wonder of prayer is rediscovered in who we're speaking to. Prayer is a mystical event by which we get to talk… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias,… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Of how many women might the history be comprised in those few words - 'she lived, suffered, and was buried'! — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
A few words about ‘trannychasing.’ I am not a trannychaser. Ok, actually I am a trannychaser. No I am not. I am… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
