The word of a powerful man is the truth.
Polite words open iron gates.
A silent man's words are not brought into court.
An honest man's word is his bond.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
The word of a woman is as a little feather on the water.
A bad cause requires many words.
Deeds are fruits, words are only leaves.
A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn't.
Words go further than bullets.
It is worse to be wounded by words than a sword.
Words are sweet but they can never replace food.
A friendly word is like a spring day.
Soft words win hard hearts.
There has to be news at a place called Fox News.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Put something sweet in his mouth and send good news to the heart.
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou...
She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.
We each have words for "love" in our languages. What would the world look like if we acted on that one word for humanity's sake?
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests...
