3,439 Quotes About Words

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The naive fall for sweet words; the intelligent fall for sweet actions

There live two-person within you, the one in your fairy words and the other in your unfair actions

There is power in everything you say to lift you up or pull you down. There is power in everything you do to reward you or penalize you.

My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;behind our reckless ones, bombs.

Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

some of the first words a child learns are brand names, because they don’t have to sound them out. It becomes part of your environmental vocabulary [Whitney Curry Wimbish & Sarah Gerard, "The Binary Companion," LA Review of Books, January 22, 2015].

I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.