Old Words Quotes

21 quotes by 17 authors

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. — Winston Churchill
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Lin Yutang
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… — Siri Hustvedt
Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him… — Rick Bragg
I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old words. Telling old… — Mary Anne Radmacher
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings,… — Willard Gaylin
Old words are reborn with new faces. — Criss Jami
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you… — Will Rogers
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks beautifully about Christ,… — C. I. Scofield
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. — William Safire
For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I… — Doris Lessing
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that… — Rabindranath Tagore
Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die — Lauren Oliver
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I… — Nizar Qabbani
To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not… — Alan Watts
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is… — Rabindranath Tagore
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. — Winston Churchill
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill

Who Wrote These Old Words Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 21 Old Words Quotes as follows: