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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.

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."

Words writ in waters.

Words are but empty thanks.

Fair words butter no parsnips.

A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.

Words of love, are works of love.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

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.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.