Words

"Words, however, are things; and the man who accords To his language the license to outrage his soul, Is controll'd by the words he disdains to control."

"How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!"

"His words, * * * like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command."

"And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one."

"How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!"

"Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense."

"So spake those wary foes, fair friends in look, And so in words great gifts they gave and took, And had small profit, and small loss thereby."

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."

"Things were first made, then words."

"Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!"

"Non opus est verbis, credite rebus."

"Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses."

"In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus."

"Words will build no walls."

"Each word-catcher, that lives on syllables."

"They say * * * That, putting all his words together, 'Tis three blue beans in one blue bladder."

"A word spoken in good season, how good is it!"

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

"The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."

"Inanis verborum torrens."

"Souvent d'un grand dessein un mot nous fait juger."

"He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other."

"Satis eloquentiæ sapientiæ parum."

"Schnell fertig ist die Jugend mit dem Wort."

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

"We know not what we do When we speak words."

"So all my best is dressing old words new."

"The arts Babblative and Scriblative."

"The artillery of words."

"But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit; And gathering thorns they shake the tree at root; For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end."

"I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting."

"I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. * * * * * In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more."

"Dictum sapienti sat est."

"As the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, "Adsum!" and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master."

"Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird."

"Hold fast the form of sound words."

"As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things."

"You [Pindar] who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything."

"You phrase tormenting fantastic chorus, With strangest words at your beck and call."

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!""

"Would you repeat that again, sir, for it soun's sae sonorous that the words droon the ideas?"

"Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way."

"Fair words enough a man shall find, They be good cheap: they cost right nought, Their substance is but only wind."

"There is no magic in words."

"Most of the disputes in the world arise from words."

"Rather commend yourself by your actions, than your expressions; one good action is worth twenty good expressions."

"Words pass from men lightly."

"The words are like Jack in a Box, and nobody knows what to make of them."

"Is not the Judge bound to know the meaning of all words in the English language; or if they are used technically or scientifically, to inform his own mind by evidence, and then to determine the meaning?"