“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
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American spiritual writer 1936Related quotes
“Harry: The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign."”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
“Love your Country next to God, your honour, and most of all yourself.”
Andrés Bonifacio (1863–1897) Filipino nationalist and revolutionary
Inscription, UST Library, Manila, Philippines, 1 September 2013.
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
T.S. Eliot book Four Quartets
Variant: For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
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Source: Four Quartets
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 120
Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
"The Idea of God" from Essays from Epilogue (Manchester: Carcanet, 2001)
“The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"Revolution" in New York Worker (27 April 1907) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1907/revolution.htm
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
“The four most expensive words in the English language are "this time it’s different."”
John Marks Templeton (1912–2008) stock investor, businessman and philanthropist
As quoted in The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio (2002) by William Bernstein
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation