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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
Vaclav Havel
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
Oscar Wilde
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
...as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus.
J.K. Rowling
Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
George Bernard Shaw
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.
Eric Idle
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson
Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H.R. Haldeman
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
J.B.S. Haldane
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
Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.
Rose Saperstein
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Rene Daumal
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
William Zinsser
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor
Thomas Carlyle
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
