Words

"Words of truth and soberness."

"Words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment."

"Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best."

"'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung."

"You have only, when before your glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot help taking their plie."

"Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. "Careful with fire," is good advice we know "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said."

"High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge."

"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."

"If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been," More sad are these we daily see, "It is, but it hadn't ought to be.""

"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."