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That blessed word Mesopotamia.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: see Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"
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He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat
to him the words of gods.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Egyptian Book of the Dead
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The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Husia of Ancient Egypt, translation by Maulana Kaurenga
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Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the
understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert
the judgment.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Advancement of Learning
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Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
Author: Joanna Baillie
Source: Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday (l. 126)
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One picture is worth ten thousand words.
Author: Frederick R. Barnard
Source: Printer's Ink
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'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Spanish Curate (act II, sc. 5, Song)
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But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak
forth the words of truth and soberness.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 25)
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Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to
utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon
earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 2)
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Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Author: Bible
Source: Ephesians (ch. V, v. 6)
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Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me,
in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Author: Bible
Source: II Timothy (ch. I, v. 13)
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How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. VI, v. 25)
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Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Author: Bible
Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 2)
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. I, v. 1)
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A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in
due season, how good is it!
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 23)
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 11)
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The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in
his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn
swords.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. LV, v. 21)
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You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to
yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.
Author: Gen. John Burgoyne
Source: The Heiress (act III, sc. 2)
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises
from words.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Letter
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Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds;
You can't do that way when you're flying words.
"Careful with fire," is good advice we know
"Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.
Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;
But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.
Author: Will Carleton
Source: The First Settler's Story (st. 21)
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well
bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge
will come to lodge.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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The Moral is that gardeners pine,
Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.
Of all sad words experience gleans,
The saddest are: "It might have beans."
(The did not make this up myself:
'Twas in a book upon my shelf.
It's witty, but I don't deny
It's rather Whittier than I.)
Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl
Source: How Jack found that Beans may go back on a Chap
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Words writ in waters.
Author: George Chapman
Source: Revenge for Honour (act V, sc. 2)
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Words are but empty thanks.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: Woman's Wit (act V)
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Fair words butter no parsnips.
Author: John Clarke
Source: Paroemiologia (p. 21, ed. 1639)
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A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.
Author: Turkish Proverb
Source: None
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Words of love, are works of love.
Author: William R. Alger
Source: None
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If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Author: W. Gladden
Source: None
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Author: Anna Sewell
Source: None
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Author: Lao-Tzu
Source: None
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Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Author: Charlotte Forten Grimke
Source: None
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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Author: Earl of Roscommon
Source: None
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Source: None
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Author: Herbert Spencer
Source: None
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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Author: Richard C. Trench
Source: None
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Author: Edward Thorndike
Source: None
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One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
Author: James Earl Jones
Source: None
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Author: George Santayana
Source: None
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Author: Steven Wright
Source: None
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