“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.”
“In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.”
“A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.”
“The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.”
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
“Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.”
“It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
“Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.”
“The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”
“It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.”
“The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back.”
“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”
“I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?”
“Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.”
“What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.”
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
“I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.”
“Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.''”
“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.”
“Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.”
“The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.”
“One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.”
“Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.”
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.”
“A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”
“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”
“The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.”