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Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. — Eduardo Galeano

Over a quarter of the words in the Bible appear just once, and of these no less than 289 belong to roots used only once in BH. — Angel Saenz-Badillos

In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you. — Lori Hatcher

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. — William Faulkner

When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less. — Israelmore Ayivor

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words. — Margaret Laurence

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper. — Nema Al-Araby

The more the words the less the meaning and how does that benefit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 6:11 — N.D. Richman

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. — Robyn Schneider

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid
less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought. — Dan Simmons

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger — Wes Fesler

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe. — Bill Jay

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. — Anna Sewell

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. — Eugene H. Peterson

Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying. — Chris Stapleton

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. — Arundhati Roy

The ladies who came to the palace tended to be less aggressive physically. But their words could probably start wars if said in the wrong tone. — Kiera Cass

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is. — Criss Jami

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. — Carol Shields

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. — Frederick Buechner

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts. — Alexander Sutherland Neill

Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close. — J.R. Ward

The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. — Aberjhani

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less. — Pope John XXIII

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

Jerry: If you always want less, in words as well as things, you'll do well as a writer. — Judd Apatow

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired. — Tracy Chevalier

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. — Vaclav Havel

Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A toothless wolf is less dangerous than a fanged insect. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann

My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus' words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. — David Platt

The less you say, the more your words will matter. — Rae Carson

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of less is more. — Darynda Jones

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it. — Storm Jameson

As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter. — Jonathan Raymond

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. — William Arthur Ward

Evey day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes. — Gabrielle Zevin

Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge — T.F. Hodge

You mean less to me than the dog st I scraped off the bottom of my shoe! — Emma Paul

Perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words ... — John Geddes

Songs are life in 80 words or less. — Neil Diamond

Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing. — John Ortberg

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) — Jean-Luc Godard

The mask of secularism may differ in thickness, may be less visible, but religion is always there hidden under hallowed big beautiful words — Nawal El Saadawi

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry. — Leigh Bardugo

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery

I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. — Helen Hunt Jackson

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. — John Calvin

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. — Eddie Izzard

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. — Coventry Patmore

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds. — Robert Cialdini

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do. — Dale Carnegie

I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely. — Slavenka Drakulic

Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less. — Stanislaw Ulam

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words. — Evelyn Waugh

[T]here are not many words in the English language more lacklustre and less sexy than 'employer'. — Roberta Pearce

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all. — Aimee Mullins

Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang — Lao-Tzu

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically.
'I think I might find words a little less interesting,' said Mr Ruche. — Denis Guedj

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground. — Cormac McCarthy

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less — E.W. Howe

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence. — Charles Williams

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words. — G.H. Hardy

Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know. — Anna Quindlen

One secret to wisdom:
think more, speak less.
If you let your words be few,
your troubles will not be many. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will

In order to be creative rules cannot exist. The creative mind deserves no less. — Steven Cuoco

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. — Charles Dickens

Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib