A hard word follows us and later falls upon him who pronounced it, like a ray of vengeance. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none other will answer his purpose; Where as the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image