Quotes About Words

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

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.

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

Talkers are no good doers.

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Fair words butter no parsnips.

Words that weep, and tears that speak.

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.

Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never harm me.

My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.