Pittsburghese

Action speaks louder than words. - Unknown

Wine is my favorite 4 letter word. - Unknown

Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing

Words build bridges into unexplored regions. - Adolf Hitler

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two. - Yiddish

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene

Life happens at the level of events, not words. - Unknown

BANG - A four-letter Italian word for good-bye. - Archie Bunker

A proverb is much matter decocted into few words. - Thomas Fuller

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover

Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along. - Erica Jong

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out. - Unknown

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. - Karl Marx

Some German words are so long that they have perspective. - Mark Twain

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. - Horace

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. - Eric T. Bell

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? - Steven Wright

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. - William Ellery Channing

If you won't give me your word of honor, will you give me your promise? - Samuel Goldwyn

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the first word you thought of. - Burt Bacharach

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth. - Samuel Johnson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. - Adlai Stevenson

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

The educated Southerner has no use for an "R", except at the beginning of a word. - Mark Twain

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success. - Unknown

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

Politics: Poli, a Latin word meaning "many"; and tics, meaning "bloodsucking creatures." - Robin Williams

The words 'figure' and 'fictitious' both derive from the same Latin root, 'fingere.' Beware! - M.J. Moroney

A man never spoke ill of his captain, pirate or no, unless he was prepared to back his words with the might of the crew. - Matt Tomerlin

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. - Elbert Hubbard

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots. - Carl Sandburg

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist. - Daniel Gardner

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. - Thomas Sowell

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. - Ernest Hemingway

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. - Bertrand Russell