Pastoral Resources

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

The words of truth are simple.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

The paper burns, but the words fly away.