Words

A wise man hears one word and understands two. – Yiddish Proverb

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Chinese Proverb

A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling. – Proverb

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. – Joseph Addison

Words of love, are works of love. – William R. Alger

When I was born I was so surprised I didnt talk for a year and a half. – Gracie Allen

If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made. – Anonymous

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt

By words the mind is winged. – Aristophanes

A synonym is a word you use when you cant spell the word you first thought of. – Burt Bacharach

The words of the world want to make sentences. – Gaston Bachelard

Words are all we have. – Samuel Beckett

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. – Henry Ward Beecher

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning. – Jim Bishop

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. – Frederika Bremer

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. – Robert Burton