Quotes about words

"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Adams, Abigail on words
6 fans of this quote   

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
13 fans of this quote   

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

Adams, John on words   

"Words of love, are works of love."

Alger, William R. on words
6 fans of this quote   

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."

Allen, Gracie on words
4 fans of this quote   

"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses."

Arendt, Hannah on words
4 fans of this quote   

"By words the mind is winged."

Aristophanes on words
8 fans of this quote   

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Bacharach, Burt on words
9 fans of this quote   

"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
7 fans of this quote   

"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
27 fans of this quote   

"Words are all we have."

Beckett, Samuel on words   

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

Beecher, Henry Ward on words
6 fans of this quote   

"Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking."

Berger, John on words   

"The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold."

Unknown, Source on words   

"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."

Bremer, Frederika on words
3 fans of this quote   

"Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on words   

"My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute."

Burroughs, William S. on words   

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

Burton, Robert on words   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."

Butler, Samuel on words   

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."

Byron, Lord on words
5 fans of this quote   

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
71 fans of this quote   

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

Carnegie, Dale on words
5 fans of this quote   

"When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."

Carroll, Lewis on words   

"Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact."

Cather, Willa on words   

"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

Chase, Stuart on words
3 fans of this quote   

"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us."

Chazal, Malcolm De on words   

"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
10 fans of this quote   

"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

Churchill, Winston on words
4 fans of this quote   

"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."

Confucius on words
4 fans of this quote   

"Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life? The Master said, Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Confucius on words
3 fans of this quote   

"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster."

Connolly, Cyril on words
3 fans of this quote   

"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality."

Conrad, Joseph on words
3 fans of this quote   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."

Conrad, Joseph on words   

"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."

Coolidge, Calvin on words
5 fans of this quote   

"Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable."

Daumal, Rene on words   

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."

Dick, Philip K. on words
3 fans of this quote   

"A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day."

Dickinson, Emily on words
3 fans of this quote   

"I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?"

Diller, Phyllis on words   

"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."

Eliot, George on words
5 fans of this quote   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."

Eliot, T. S. on words