Chosen Quote by Andre Maurois Download Open image “To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.” — Andre Maurois ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chosen Language Pairs Reason Scales Weight
Words Are The Only Weightless Thing In This World That Can Actually Make You Feel Heavy Think And Use It Properly... — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've learned that my word carries weight, and that's something I have to always have to keep in mind. — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block... — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“O mare dragoste nu este de ajuns pentru a lega de tine fiinta pe care o iubesti, daca nu te pricepi sa umpli viata… — André Maurois Copy Share Image
“Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this.… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered -… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education. — John Conyers Copy Share Image
When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image