The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
—Mark Twain
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
—John Maynard Keynes
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
—John Donne
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
—Stephen King
With words we govern men.
—Benjamin Disraeli
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
—Henry Adams
In love there are two things—bodies and words.
—Joyce Carol Oates
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.
—Leo Tolstoy
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.
—Jeanne Moreau
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
—Abraham Lincoln
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.
—Anna Sewell
Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
—Thomas Shadwell
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
—François Rabelais
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
—Josh Billings
Words of love, are works of love.
—William R. Alger