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 Parcak
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.Bill Cosby
Actions 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 McCarthy
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?Melina Marchetta
Boys will never understand how much their small words can affect a girl.Farah Mustafa
But words are words. I never yet did hearWilliam Shakespeare
That 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 Lehman
Facts 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 Fabre
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.Oscar Wilde
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you're in the world.Elton John
Source: Lyrics: Your Song
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.Matt Groening
I love words.Richard Dawkins
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.Dennis Roch
Immature is a word boring people use to describe fun people.Will Ferrell
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.Paul Tillich
Let 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 possibleAudrey Hepburn
Oaths are but words, and words but wind.Samuel Butler
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.Edgar Allan Poe
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.Robert Kennedy
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.Dave Barry
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.Alexander Theroux
Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.Laozi
Sons quote their fathers, in words and in deeds.Terri Guillemets
Tears are words that need to be written.Paulo Coelho
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.Mark Twain
The 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 Bergman
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.Ronald Reagan
The 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.Bible
Source: Proverbs 14:15
The word "user" is the word used by the computer professional when they mean "idiot".Dave Barry
The word agriculture, after all, does not mean 'agriscience,' much less 'agribusiness.' It means 'cultivation of land'.Wendell Berry
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.Bible
The 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 Austen
Source: 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. xEnya
Amaranthus 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 Lichtenberg
We 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
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