Defects Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

— Theodore Roosevelt

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

— Jodi Picoult

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

— Sholom Aleichem

It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people…

— Kory Stamper

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

— James F. Cooper

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

— Colum McCann

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

— Katherine Applegate

The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war is no excuse for sloppy vocabulary.

— Anonymous

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon…

— Stephanie Mills

“Words fail… As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is…

— Ramon C. Sunico

Sometimes, in the deepest moments, there are no words. There is only food.

— Roy Choi