Here are some proverbs and quotes about words.
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A deaf insect hears words in the belly of a bird
A kind word is like a spring day.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Showing or explaining something by using pictures is easier than explaining it through words.A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.
Sarah ParcakA word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
Bill CosbyActions speak louder than words.
What you actually do is more important that what you say you will do.As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture.
John McCarthyBecause without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
Melina MarchettaBoys will never understand how much their small words can affect a girl.
Farah MustafaBut words are words. I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear
William ShakespeareThat the bruised heart was pierced through the ear
Cold tea and cold rice are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.
Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves.
Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.
Kim LehmanFacts speak louder than words.
What you do is more important than what you say.Fine words butter no parsnips.
Action is better than talking.Hard words break no bones.
Human knowledge will be erased from the world's archives before we possess the last word that a gnat has to say to us.
Henri FabreI am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar WildeI hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you're in the world.
Elton JohnSource: Lyrics: Your Song
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
Matt GroeningI love words.
Richard DawkinsIf it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis RochImmature is a word boring people use to describe fun people.
Will FerrellLanguage has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul TillichLet my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible
Audrey HepburnOaths are but words, and words but wind.
Samuel ButlerOne kind word can warm three winter months.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan PoeProgress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert KennedyProofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Dave BarrySeptember: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
Alexander TherouxSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
LaoziSons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.
Terri GuillemetsTears are words that need to be written.
Paulo CoelhoThe difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark TwainThe foolish slogans of a rich man often pass for words of wisdom by the fools around him.
The kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid BergmanThe most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald ReaganThe mouth of an elderly man is without teeth, but never without words of wisdom.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Convincing people with words and ideas is more effective than forcing them to do what you want.The simple believeth every word.
BibleSource: Proverbs 14:15
The word "user" is the word used by the computer professional when they mean "idiot".
Dave BarryThe word agriculture, after all, does not mean 'agriscience,' much less 'agribusiness.' It means 'cultivation of land'.
Wendell BerryThe words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
BibleThe words of elders are like the gooseberry: bitter at first, then sweet.
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that. x
EnyaAmaranthus species are grown as ornamental plants for their flowers, or for their grains, or are used as a leaf vegetable.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergWe will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.
Edith Lovejoy Pierce