Quotes About Words

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

A loan is the scissors of friendship. A man's own tongue may cut his throat. The cage has no value without the bird.

MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.

Tres cosas Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. (Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)

Ya que las espadas fueron diseñadas para matar, hicieron bien en hacerlas con forma de lengua.

Dicho del Profeta La lengua Un hombre resbala más con su lengua que con sus pies.

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque lo que dicen o hacen le resulta atractivo a tu codicia. Este factor está oculto debido a su mera apariencia. Si dejas de escuchar sus palabras y contemplas el efecto, pronto verás que es así.

Maghribi: El aprendizaje es en la actividad. Aprender sólo por medio de palabras es una actividad menor.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

Ningún cirujano puede tratar las heridas de la lengua.

Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. Ali, el León del Islam.

La lengua es el mejor masajista de cejas fruncidas.

Three Things Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. (Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet)

Contemplación para alcanzar amor. Primero conviene advertir en dos cosas. La primera es que el amor se debe poner más en las obras que en las palabras. La segunda: el amor consiste en comunicación de las dos partes, es a saber, en dar y comunicar el amante al amado lo que tiene, o de lo que tiene o puede, y así, por el contrario, el amado al amante. De manera que si el uno tiene ciencia, dar al que no la tiene, si honores, si riquezas, y así el otro al otro.

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

but all I see in the space between the words, / between drops of rain / is how we are both sad / in any language

To demotivate is to murder.

The point is to make sure that your actions and your words have the right intentions behind them; to maintain the possibility and capacity to uplift, shift, and empower people, yourself included, to head in a better, positive direction

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words." "It makes them real, lord. It makes them last.

Unaware of them all, Temujin began to chant words he had not heard since old Chagatai had whispered them on a frozen night long before. The shaman's chant spoke of loss and revenge, of winter, ice, and blood. He did not have to struggle to recall the words; they were ready on his tongue as if he had always known them.

A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.

Finally, don't be fooled by words like orientate or commentate, misguided back-formations from orientation and commentator; orient and comment do the job just fine. Don't use big words to gloss over the truth or to pump air into ideas.

What would a grammar book be if it didn't lounge around in a little Latin? Let