Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party, faction, and division of society
John Adams
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased
Aeschylus
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them
Anatole France
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools
Thomas Hobbes
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
Ben Jonson
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins
Jules Renard
Words are the small change of thought
Jules Renard
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words
Bobby Bowden
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence
Paul Simon
Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince
Joan of Arc
Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
George Bernard Shaw