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We live and breathe words.
Cassandra Clare
Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions which will be most useful for his own purpose
C.S. Lewis
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're peirced.
Aldous Huxley
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Words of love, are works of love.
William R. Alger
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.
Angelus Silesius
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
Stephen King
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.
Virginia Woolf
Words alike flames, they burn. leaving nothing, not even blood, but ashes, which are never identified, never retraceable and ridiculously impossible to be put back together again.
Charles Adrian Pacis
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
Robert Louis Stevenson
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
Lech Walesa
