 | "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
- Abigail Adams
, letter to John Adams, 1774. |
| "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
- Abraham Lincoln
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| Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
, speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952. |
| "Words are the physicians of the mind diseased."
- Aeschylus
, Prometheus Bound. |
| "Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words."
- Aprocrypha
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| "High thoughts must have high language."
- Aristophanes
, Frogs, 405 B.C. |
| "Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
- Cato the Elder
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| "If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur."
- Doug Larson
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| Use soft words and hard arguments.
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English Proverb. |
| "England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
- George Bernard Shaw
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