The oldest, shortest words 'yes' and 'no' are those which requires the most thought.
Pythagoras
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
Daniel Kahneman
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell
The limits of language are the limits of one's world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G.K. Chesterton
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German proverbs
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. It is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
