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- Words are good servants but bad masters.
- Aldous Huxley, as reported by Laura Huxley, in conversation with Alan Watts, about This Timeless Moment, in Pacifica Archives #BB2037
- Words are pegs to hang ideas on.
- Henry Ward Beecher Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. 'The Human Mind (1887)
- Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes, in New Statesman and Nation (15 July 1933)
- My father still reads the dictionary everyday. He says your life depends on your ability to master words.
- Arthur Scargill, quoted in The Sunday Times (10 January 1982)
- Words, words, words.
- William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act II, Scene II
- Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; Th' effect doth operate another way.
- William Shakespeare, in Troilus and Cressida Act V Scene III
- Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe.
- Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Ch. 28
- I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
- The Bible, Psalm 39:1
- If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
- Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
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- Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
- Buddha, disputed
- So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
