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We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. By Eugene H. Peterson Careful Words Start End

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it. By Joseph Joubert Word Make Fancy Room

Words are potential weapons so use them wisely. By Joanne Madeline Moore Words Wisely Potential Weapons

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. By David Hume Praise Implied Simple Epithet Contrary

I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned? By Jonathan Safran Foer Nightclubs Abandoned Love Famous Correctly

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius. By Lupita Nyong'o Genius Steve Mcqueen Overused Word

I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished. By Francine Prose Idiot Unappreciated Unloved Unmarried Dropped

caughtoutedness. By Markus Zusak Caughtoutedness

When you don't understand how to make a good use of something, you will abuse that thing. By Israelmore Ayivor Thing Understand Make Good Abuse

People get uncomfortable that word. By Lime Craven People Word Uncomfortable

I hate that word, by the way. Retarded. I By Sharon M. Draper Word Retarded Hate

Used is to sued, as brick is to Kricb, and that is such a profound observation on my part that I'm afraid I don't fully grasp it at the moment. By Jarod Kintz Kricb Sued Moment Brick Profound

Fess, lad, 'tis just a word, like any other word I might use. The filthiness of it is in people's minds." Even his Gran said that a word that described something so beautiful and natural couldn't be so very wrong. You might as well say 'sky' and 'tree' were wrong. Mind you, she also said that using it too often showed a poor vocabulary and laziness, and she certainly didn't encourage either of those. By Helen Gosney Fess Lad Word Tis Wrong

Useless"-what they call you when you won't let yourself be used. By Marty Rubin Useless Call

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word. By Ernest Hemingway, Love Word Useless

There is no harm in being used. We all use one another daily. But were you misused by me? I can think of no one alive who could have performed better under the demands of your fate. By Thomm Quackenbush Harm Daily Fate Misused Alive

An inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both. By Maria Edgeworth Reasoning Debate Combatants Unable Foes

I've never been a fan of euphemism. By Jo Brand Euphemism Fan

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love. By Leonardo Da Vinci Abbreviators Love Harm Knowledge

Dictionary of Misunderstood Words By Milan Kundera Words Misunderstood Dictionary

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. By Wilson Follett Words Nonetheless Usage Decides Meaning

Never mind the usedo it! By Samuel Johnson Mind Usedo

when confined to technical use. In like By Ralph Waldo Emerson Confined Technical

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power. By Margaret Heffernan Loosely Consideration Words Care Erode

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths. By Thomas Carlyle Word Impossible Mouths Lucky Good

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification. By Hannah More Sun Considerable Evils Prevail Abuse

(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly. By Charles Mccarry Iction

The Word ought to be exposed in the words By Karl Barth Word Words Exposed

Words are like knives ... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon. By Gosho Aoyama Words Knives Weapon Wrong Transforms

Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little. By Rachel Hawkins Brandon Word Story Mention Real

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. By Herbert Spencer Thoughts Misused Words Generate Misleading

Never use one word when two will do. By Thomas Jefferson Word

Use it or lose it. By Jimmy Connors Lose

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again. By Olive Schreiner Purifed Word Defiled Bad Century

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. By William Safire Archaisms Behooves Avoid Long Word

Grammar, you're the pickiest noun I know. By Buffy Andrews Grammar Pickiest Noun

Never use a long word where a short one will do. By George Orwell Long Word Short

Understatement is overrated By Leigh Bardugo Understatement Overrated

A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use. By Nasreddin Called Wanting Rope Man Borrow

English is not my first language. By Zhu Zhu English Language

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated. By James Russell Lowell Rehabilitated Word Vulgarized

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway. By George Clinton Xrated Words Man Talking

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless. By Kanye West Useless

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place. By E.b. White Write Verbs Adverbs Place Nouns

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. By William Shakespeare Block Misused Past Endurance

Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot. By Jim Steinman Rundgren Todd Genius Lot Word

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. By Martha Graham Business Expressions Determine Good Valuable

Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate By Nick Hornby Vulnerable Messedup Inadequate

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. By James Thurber Act False Misunderstood Word Create

Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. By Frederick Lenz Power Abused Beholder Suppose Abuse

This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English. By Roberto Benigni English Mistake Terrible

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. By H.l. Mencken Push Noun Verb Blow

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him. By Elizabeth I Useth Small Disproportion Betwixt Fool

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever. By Curt Schilling Mistakes Misspoke Book Made Part

Some things are to be enjoyed, others to be used, and there are others to be enjoyed and used. By Augustine Of Hippo Enjoyed Things

Never let me hear that foolish word again. By Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte De Mirabeau Hear Foolish Word

It was fine. I'm getting real tired of that word. It's a nothing word, and when people say it, it never really means what it's supposed to. By Leah Rae Miller Fine Word Real Tired People

The granted for taken. By Cameron Conaway Granted

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. By Winston S. Churchill Put Type Arrant Pedantry

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far. By Mark Twain Simplified Chastity Spelling Carry

A single word often betrays a great design. By Jean Racine Design Single Word Betrays Great

A bag which was left and not only taken but turned away was not found. The place was shown to be very like the last time. A piece was not exchanged, not a bit of it, a piece was left over. The rest was mismanaged. By Gertrude Stein Found Left Bag Turned Piece

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends. By Chinua Achebe Nature Arising Users Ends Turn

There is no more irritating fellow than the one who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or freedom, by quoting from the dictionary. Lexicographers may be respected as authorities on word usage, but they are not the ultimate founts of wisdom. By Mortimer J. Adler Communism Justice Freedom Dictionary Irritating

Never is too long a word even for me... By J.r.r. Tolkien Long Word

These words have been sanitized for your protection. An adjective and a noun, respectively. By Libba Bray Protection Words Sanitized Noun Adjective

One of the heaviest load so many people are carrying today is neither thoughts about things they lack nor things they wish to have, nor how to manage what they already have, but toxic words that have taken a greater portion of their thoughts and such words not just occupying a great part of their hearts, but also draining their very joy in life! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Things Thoughts Words Hearts Life

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. By Warren Buffett Bad Thinking Terminology Enemy Good

While we meant to invite debate about some ways the word was used this year, that nuance was lost, and we regret that its inclusion has become a distraction from the important debate over equality and justice. By Nancy Gibbs Year Lost Justice Debate Meant

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth. By Krista Ritchie Fine Word Weightless Stupid Truth

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them. By Georg C. Lichtenberg Shame Tools Owners Desecrated Great

Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text. By Melanie Rawn Word Text Uncommon Meaning

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. By Colum Mccann Things Words Good Function

I'd heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word "utilize" instead of "use. By Patrick Rothfuss Utilize Word Heard Started Fistfight

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it. By Percy Williams Bridgman True Meaning Term Found Observing

To know and not to use is not yet to know! By Gautama Buddha

is a small word with a big reach. There By Addictive Reads Reach Small Word Big

Words are weapons...use them wisely. By Hannah Faye Words Weapons Wisely

Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself, and are not continued but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefits for the subjects. Badly used are those cruelties which. although being few at the outset, grow with the passing time instead of disappearing. Those who follow the first method can remedy their condition with God and with men; the others cannot possibly survive. By Niccolo Machiavelli Cruelties Evil Stroke Oneself Subjects

Among people who might be described as having at least a passing regard for the English language, there are few instances of usage that evoke a desire to mutilate more than the perceived misuse of literally. By Ammon Shea English Language Literally People Passing

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way. By Tim Cook Things Good Bad

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. By Miguel De Unamuno Beauty Harms Destroys Contemplated Noblest

She'd looked it up and read the definition ("deprived of the possession or use of something; lacking something needed, wanted, or expected") By Luanne Rice Wanted Definition Deprived Lacking Needed

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language. By Mark Slouka Language Saddest Word

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. By George Carlin Language Underestimate Role Pretension Plays

Poor Traddles, who had passed the stage of lying with his head upon the desk, and was relieving himself as usual with a burst of skeletons, said he didn't care. Mr. Mell was ill-used. 'Who has ill-used him, you girl?' said Steerforth. 'Why, you have,' returned Traddles. 'What have I done?' said Steerforth. 'What have you done?' retorted Traddles. 'Hurt his feelings, and lost him his situation. By Charles Dickens Traddles Steerforth Poor Desk Skeletons

Correct English is the slang of prigs ... By George Eliot English Correct Prigs Slang

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything. By Sean Connery Introduction Psychoanalysis Terms Excuse Behavior

Nice. A shaggy, all-purpose word to be used sparingly in formal composition By William Strunk Jr. Nice Shaggy Allpurpose Composition Word

Beautiful. Jules once thought he'd understood what the word meant. He now believed it overused. Some word needed to be kept in reserve for the rare, the arresting, the surprising ... the magical. Or a new one invented. By Julie Anne Long Beautiful Word Jules Meant Thought

When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it. By Sunday Adelaja Possess Knowing Abuse

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. By Percy Bysshe Shelley Word Profaned Profane Feeling Falsely

Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent. By Hermester Barrington Definition Misspent Youth

Words can have all the power in the world or - none at all. That's up to you. By Adam Makos Words Power World

Words are like swords, if you use them the wrong way, it'll turn into ugly weapons. By Gosho Aoyama Words Swords Weapons Wrong Turn

I'm perfectly fine with being used. But I would like to know for what I'm being used.DistractionThat much I gathered. What am I supposed to be distracting you from? There's a chance that if I knew, I could do my job more effectively. By Kody Keplinger Perfectly Fine Gathered Useddistractionthat Knew

is a misunderstanding we often have By Richard Stearns Misunderstanding

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution. By Barbara Tuchman Words Material Caution Seductive Dangerous

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at. By Ellen Terry Usefulness Nights Word Fascinating Quality

I never use that word, retire. By B.b. King Retire Word