A loss for words Quote by Garrison Keillor

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,…

— Haruki Murakami

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

— William Shakespeare

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

— Anonymous

I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a…

— Martin Van Buren

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he…

— Samuel Johnson

He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

— Gautama Buddha

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

— William Nicholson

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

— Herman Melville

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

— A. P. Herbert

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

— Jean Cocteau