“ There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
“ It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
“ The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
“ We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"? ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
“ There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
“ I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. ”
- Moses MendeLssohn- Copy
“ You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes. ”
- Moses MendeLssohn- Copy
“ Nobody would dispute that I'm giving him a centrality he doesn't generally have. ”
- Hans Hofmann- Copy
“ I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand. ”
- Anne Ford- Copy
“ There's this perception that Mick and I are always fighting. Most of it is very smooth sailing. Every time we stumble across the odd spat, everyone hears about it. ”
- Keith Richards- Copy
“ We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. ”
- John Locke- Copy
“ The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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