Words

""Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”"

""In influencing write-ups, words seem to move despite residing still on paper.”"

"“In many a situation, the images that words hide while walking forth are the desired meaning of particular words rather than the word itself. Those words sing and dance by coming out of the paper.”"

"“Language is texture of images and music. We speak in images and rhythm, by taking help of words.”"

"Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found."

"In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold; Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the New are try'd, Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside."

"We can judge the intent of the parties only by their words."

"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."

"I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me."

"Judas: I remember when this whole thing began No talk of God then, we called you a man And believe me, my admiration for you hasn't died. But every word you say today Gets twisted round some other way And they'll hurt if they think you've lied."

"Mr. Wilson says of the trust plank in that platform that it "did not anywhere condemn monopoly except in words." Exactly of what else could a platform consist? Does Mr. Wilson expect us to use algebraic signs? This criticism is much as if he said the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence contained nothing but words."

"The mastery of longer-syllabled words in the English language is no doubt admirable but it is not equivalent to thinking. And I do believe that thinking is an overrated medium for achieving thought."

"Never believe that anti‐Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play."

"My father still reads the dictionary everyday. He says your life depends on your ability to master words."

"Syllables govern the world."

"What art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear My dagger in my mouth."

"What do you read, my lord? Words, words, words."

"Unpack my heart with words And fall a-cursing, like a very drab."

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Familiar in his mouth as household words."

"'Tis well said again; And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds."

"But yesterday the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence."

"Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words Since I first call'd my brother's father dad."

"O they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon."

"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical."

"Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins."

"Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper!"

"His very words are a fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes."

"But words are words; I never yet did hear That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear."

"I know thou'rt full of love and honesty, And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath."

"How long a time lies in one little word! Four lagging winters and four wanton springs End in a word: such is the breath of kings."

"O, but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain, For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. He that no more must say is listen'd more."

"These words are razors to my wounded heart."

"Words pay no debts, give her deeds."

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; Th' effect doth operate another way."

"Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them."

"A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off."

"Words are but holy as the deeds they cover."

"The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken."

"Words that warmed women, wooed and won them, snipped the final thread of inhibition and gratified the male egos of ungrateful lovers; ... for which they were eternally in his debt, for which they may eternally hate him."

"For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind."

"A word is no more than a means to an end. Its an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself. The word honey isn't honey. You can study and talk about honey for as long as you like, but you won' t really know it until you taste it. After you have tasted it, the word becomes less important to you. You won't be attached to it anymore. Similarly, you can talk or think about God continuously for the rest of your life, but does that mean you know or have even glimpsed the reality to which the word points?"

"The reverse also applies: If, for whatever reason, you disliked the word honey, that might prevent you from ever tasting it. If you had a strong aversion to the word God, which is a negative form of attachment, you may be denying not just the word but also the reality to which it points. You would be cutting yourself off from the possibility of experiencing that reality. All this is, of course, intrinsically connected with being identified with your mind.So, if a word doesn't work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it with one that does work. If you don't like the word sin, then call it unconsciousness or insanity. That may get you closer to the truth, the reality behind the word, than a long-misused word like sin, and leaves little room for guilt."

"I know words. I have the best words."

"Although we acquire the skill of understanding words by experience, so that we know the correlations between them and things, between words and other words, and between words and feelings and actions, we do not do it by inductive reasoning. Nor must we think that we do it by deductive reasoning... In the main, words are cues rather than clues."

"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."

"Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe."

"[A]nybody who has served in combat in any way understands that words are weapons. And I'm in a war. The war hasn't stopped. I've always used the books as a blunt instrument."

"Dat inania verba, Dat sine mente sonum."

"A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds..."