"The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: "It might have beans." (I did not make this up myself: 'Twas in a book upon my shelf. It's witty, but I don't deny It's rather Whittier than I)."

"Words writ in waters."

"Words are but empty thanks."

"Fair words butter no parsnips."

"Mum's the word."

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

"Words that weep, and tears that speak."

"Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and prism."

"But words once spoke can never be recall'd."

"It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things."

"I trade both with the living and the dead for the enrichment of our native language."

"And torture one poor word ten thousand ways."

"Let thy words be few."

"Let no man deceive you with vain words."

"An undisputed power Of coining money from the rugged ore, Nor less of coining words, is still confessed, If with a legal public stamp impressed."

"New words and lately made shall credit claim If from a Grecian source they gently stream."

"That blessed word Mesopotamia."

"Der Worte sind genug gewechselt, Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn."

"Gewöhnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hört, Es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken."

"Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust."

"At this every lady drew up her mouth as if going to pronounce the letter P."

"For words are wise men's counters—they do but reckon by them—but they are the money of fools."

"Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd."

"Winged words."

"Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go Abroad upon her errands to and fro."

"How forcible are right words!"

"Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?"

"I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven."

"To make dictionaries is dull work."

"Like orient pearls at random strung."

"The masterless man … afflicted with the magic of the necessary words…. Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers."

"We might have been—these are but common words, And yet they make the sum of life's bewailing."

"We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."

"Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not."

"My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses."

"There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on."

"Ein Wörtlein kann ihn fällen."

"Some grave their wrongs on marble; He, more just, Stooped down serene, and wrote them in the dust."

"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."

"Words that weep, and strains that agonise."

"Strains that sigh and words that weep."

"It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken."

"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."