Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.
Samuel R. Delany
The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.
Natsuki Takaya
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Jane Fonda
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston Bachelard
Words which enlighten some darken others.
Edward Counsel
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
Zinedine Zidane
No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live.
Philip Moeller
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Homer
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
Douglas Adams
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
Charles Dickens