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You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things! — Robertson Davies

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

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas . — Eric Hoffer

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too. — Lady Gregory

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. — Patricia Briggs

I see too many things. I always have. Words and pictures connect together in my mind in strange ways and I notice details wherever I am. — Ally Condie

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

I'm sorry, I said, although by this point the words felt like a cheap shirt that has lost its shape after too many washings. — Kate Karyus Quinn

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. — Jules Renard

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble. — Carolee Dean

My exit is the result of too many entrees. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in. — Cole Harmonson

Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything. — W. Bruce Cameron

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. — Anthony Trollope

I think values are really, really important, but I also think that too many values are just words. — Lou Gerstner

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words. — Stephin Merritt

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words. — Frank A. Clark

Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words. — Alice Steinbach

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words. — Barbara Feldon

Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. — Robertson Davies

Anna gave her that disjointed look with which so many people regarded Hannah, as if they has fallen too many words behind to ever catch up. — Laura L. Sullivan

I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words. — Dave Barry

A man may betray Jesus Christ by speaking too many words, and he may betray him through keeping his mouth shut. — Oswald Chambers

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones. — Salman Rushdie

The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. — Dejan Stojanovic

I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words. — Hannibal Buress

Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness — Lao-Tzu

Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say. — Rick Yancey

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. — Yunus Emre

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. — Joan Aiken

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. — Wislawa Szymborska

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. — Josh Billings