Aeschylus c.525-456 BC
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Barnard Frederick R.
Printer's Ink
One picture is worth ten thousand words.

The Bilbe (Authorized Version)
New Testament: St Matthew ch.24 v.35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Boileau Nicolas 1636-1711
Satire (2) A M. Molière
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

Butler Samuel ‘Hudibras' 1612-1680
Hudibras
Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

Copland Aaron 1900-1990
If a literary man puts together two words
about music, one of them will be wrong.

Depew Chauncey 1834-1928
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still
alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

Dillon Wentworth c. 1633-1685
Art of Poetry
But words once spoke can never be recalled.

Eisenhower Dwight D. 1890-1969
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than
necessary to tell more than he knows.

Elizabeth II Queen 1926
In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents,
it has turned out to be an ‘annus horribilis'.

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue
still;
While words of learned length, and thund' ring
sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around,
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.

Gracian Baltasar 1601-1658
Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

Hobbes Thomas 1588-1679
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon
by them; but they are the money of fools.

Holmes Oliver Wendell 1809-1894
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they
always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

Hopper Edward 1882-1967
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
‘Eupheme'
The voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked the air;
And though the sound were parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense.

Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Volpone
Give ‘em words;
Pour oil into their ears, and send them hence.

JOUBERT Joseph 1754-1824
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.

Jovanovich William
Some words are like the old Roman galleys; large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

Jowett Benjamin 1817-1893
Ulysses
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

Langland William c.1330-1400
The Vision of Piers Plowman
A gloton of words.

Lowell Amy 1874-1925
„Sword Blades and Poppy Seed"
All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you drug, with words.

Luther Martin 1483-1546
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Madden Samuel 1686-1765
Boulter's Monument
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Massinger Philip 1583-1640
The Parliament of Love
Oh that thou hadst like others been all words,
And no performance.

Milne A.A. 1882-1956
Winnie-the-Pooh
I am A Bear of Very Little Brain and long words Bother me.

Milton John 1608-1674
An Apology for Smectymnuus
His words ... like so many nimble and airy servitors
trip about him at command.

Milton John 1608-1674
‘On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'
The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs through the archèd roof in words deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving.

Moliére 1622-1673
Les Femmes savantes
It's good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Morrison Edmund
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

Murdoch Dame Iris 1919-
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
Insight into the truth is the flash which in live conversation upon serious matters, carries one beyond words.

Newton John Henry, Cardinal 1801-1890
The Dream of Gerontius
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise;
In all his words most wonderful,
Most sure in all His ways.

Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Esssay on Criticism
While expletives their feeble aid do join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

Prior Matthew 1664-1721
‘Jinny the Just'
For the idiom of words very little she heeded,
Provided the matter she drove at succeeded,
She took and gave languages just as she needed.

Proverbs and Sayings
English
A man of words and not of deeds,
Is like a garden full of weeds.

Reade Charles 1814-1884
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Rodgers Richard 1902-1979
No Strings ‘The Sweetest Sounds'
The sweetest sounds I'll ever hear
Are still inside my head.
The kindest words I'll ever know
Are waiting to be said.

Roscommon Earl of 1637-1685
Essay on Translated Verse
Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.

Shadwell Thomas 1642-1692
Psyche
Words may be false and full of art,
Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Hamlet
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry V
Men of few words are the best men.

Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
‘Ode to the West Wind'
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Spencer Herbert 1820-1903
Principles of Ethics
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
Letter to a Young Gentleman ...Holy Orders
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.

Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
‘Atalanta in Calydon'
For words divide and rend;
But silence is most noble till the end.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
In Memoriam A.H.H.
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul Within.

Twain Mark 1835-1910
The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Van Gogh Vincent 1853-1890
It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Wendell Barrett 1855-1921
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs
and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

White E. B. 1899-1985
His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Whittier John Greenleaf 1807-1892
‘Maud Muller'
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!'

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