Carry On Tuesday Plus # 125

Quotes about words! 

"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Adams, Abigail 

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."

Adams, John 

"Words of love, are works of love."

Alger, William R.  

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." 

Allen, Gracie

"By words the mind is winged." 

Aristophanes  

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Bacharach, Burt  

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken." 

Card, Orson Scott  

"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words." 

Churchill, Winston 

"Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster." 

Connolly, Cyril  

"A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space." 

Conrad, Joseph  

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."

Burton, Robert 

"Words are all we have."

Beckett, Samuel on words