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- 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… — Winston Churchill
- In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking… — 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… — 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,… — Siri Hustvedt
- Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people… — Rick Bragg
- I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking 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… — 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… — Will Rogers
- If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks… — 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