Quotes
Quotes about Word
To arms! to arms! ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe!
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death!
It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," --words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.
Terrible he rode alone,
With his Yemen sword for aid;
Ornament it carried none
But the notches on the blade.
A proverb and a byword.
How forcible are right words!
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
He multiplieth words without knowledge.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart.
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Let thy words be few.
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Words of truth and soberness.
Every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth
We are moved by music in ways that words cannot describe, and such emotion can drive us to action - war, murder, love.
It is best to regard the (English) language as a growing corpus of words and structures which nobody can know entirely but upon which anyone can draw at any time - a sort of unlimited bank account.
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motorshow - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up
Mercy is the word, mercy. And a greater word is love.
The power of the poet pulsed blood through his body. The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
Supper is a word of strange finality. Perhaps that derives from the scriptures. Revenge is a good supper but a bad breakfast, they say.
