"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." ~ Henry Adams
Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do it, then you are siphoning off the energy needed to actually do the work. Your words become an energy leak. ~ Sonia Choquette, Your Heart's Desire, 1997
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said..."It means just what I choose it to mean--neither more or less." ~ Lewis Carroll
Passwords are the words that help you pass through the strange and bad lands of life's experience. ~ Ben Zion
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results. ~ Florence Nightingale
Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden. ~ T.S. Eliot
Speak but one word to me. ~ William Morris
Man's word is God in man. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Better pointed bullets than pointed words. ~ Otto von Bismarck
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. ~ Bertrand Russell
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton