Pittsburghese

Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime. - Greek proverb

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

Silence often gives impressions that words can not. - Unknown

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

When we don't have the words, chocolate can speak volumes. - Joan Bauer

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower. - Bruce Feirstein

Vegetarian: an old Indian word for "doesn't hunt well." - Paul Harvey

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. - Wendell Johnson

Poor Faulkner, Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. - Stephen King

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. - John Bunyan

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Flour and butter, cream and sugar, words and images - all the ingredients for a rich, tasty story. - Rona Simmons

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. - John Tillotson

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with the word 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler. - Calvin Trillin

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth. - Gary Vaynerchuk

Not to mince words, Mr. Epstein, we don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitarists are on the way out. - Brian Epstein

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

Already, companies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone. - Unknown

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them. - Unknown

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound. - Unknown

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

F-E-A-R has two meanings:
'Forget Everything And Run' or
'Face Everything And Rise.'
The choice is yours. - Zig Ziglar

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. - John F Kennedy

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

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. - Johann G. Hamann

Dorothy Parker: "Mr. Coolidge, I've made a bet against a fellow who said it was impossible to get more than two words out of you."
Coolidge: "You lose." - Calvin Coolidge

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword! - Oscar Wilde

Every thought willingly contemplated, every word meaningly spoken, every action freely done, consolidates itself in the character, and will project itself onward in a permanent continuity. - Henry Giles

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