Words
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
- Billings, Josh
The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
- Cato, Dionysius
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
- Dryden, John
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
- Eliot, T. S.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
- Johnson, Samuel
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
- Pope, Alexander
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
- Scott, Sir Walter
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
- Southey, Robert
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
