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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.: Earl of Roscommon
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.: Cardinal John Newman
It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.: Unknown
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.: Johann Kaspar Lavater
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.": Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

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