Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Charles Horton Cooley

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.
Dean Martin

The words of truth are simple.
Aeschylus

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus

The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
Marilyn vos Savant

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
Dorothy Day