THE POWER OF WORDS

THE POWER OF WORDS

�By words the mind is excited and spirit elated.�

Aristophanes, The Birds

��Good words anoint a man, ill words kill a man.�

John Florio, First Fruites

�Good words are worth much and cost little.�

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

�Better one living word than a hundred dead.�

W.G. Benham, Quotations

�A word to the wise is sufficient.�

Plautus, Persa

�Words, like fine flowers, have their colors, too.�

Ernest Rhys, Words

�Sharp words make more wounds than surgeons can heal.�

Thomas Churchyard, Mirror of Man

�Clearness is the most important matter in the use of words.�

Quintillian, De Institutione Oratoria

�Speak clearly, if you speak at all;

Carve every word before you let it fall.�

Oliver Wendell Holmes, A Rhymed Lesson

�Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.�

Confucius, Analects

�For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.�

Confucius, Analects

�With words we govern men.�

Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming

�Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.�

Rudyard Kipling, Speech

�Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.�

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

�What do you read my Lord?

Words, words, words.�

Shakespeare, Hamlet

�My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.�

Shakespeare, Hamlet

�These words are razors to my wounded heart.�

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

�Word by word the book is made.�

French proverb

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue,"

King Solomon (Pro. 18:21).