Quotes On Words

God wove a web of loveliness
Of clouds and stars and birds,
But made not any thing at all
So beautiful as words.- Anna H. Branch

Words are like leaves, and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.- Pope

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.- Rudyard Kipling

By the words thou shalt be condemend.- New Testament : Matthew

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the
heart of a child.- H.W. Longfellow

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their
echoes are truly endless.- Mother Teresa

Short words are best and the old words when short are
best of all.- Winston Churchill

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using
two words when one will do.- Thomas Jefferson

A word to the wise is sufficient.- Terence

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below :
Words without thoughts never arise to heaven go.- Shakespeare : Hamlet

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world
arise from words.- Edmund Burke

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those
which require the most thought.- Pythagoras

Words, like grasses, obscure everything, they do not
make clear.- Joseph Joubert

Good words are worth much and cost little.- George Herbert

Quarrels ends, but words once spoken never die.- African Proverb

Words are what hold society together.- Stuart Chase

Men of few words are the best men.- Shakespeare

Words fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of
silver.- Proverb

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.- H.W. Beecher

The difference between the right word and the almost
right word is the difference between lightning and the
lightning bug.- Mark Twain

Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But words can never harm me.- Old English Rhym