Pittsburghese

Let thy words be few. - Ecclesiastes 5:2

Wine is my favorite 4 letter word. - Unknown

Music describes what words can't. - Unknown

Kind words are the music of the world. - F.W. Faber

A word too much always defeats its purpose. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? - Neltje Blanchan

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. - James Roy Newman

Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday. - Estonian Proverb

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - Marcel Marceau

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible"! - Audrey Hepburn

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct. - Marcel Marceau

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. - Robert Frost

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement. - Alfred Adler

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body. - Jeanne Moreau

Divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet. - Robin Williams

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. - Rabindranath Tagore

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

Tart words make no friends: A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. - Benjamin Franklin

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on. - Louise Erdrich

Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner

If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell

This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew. - George Bernard Shaw

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. - Paul Simon

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. - Steven Wright

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. - Steve Martin

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have. - Goldie Hawn

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. - Neils Bohr

For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning. - T S Eliot

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. - Joseph Addison

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

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