Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

Words are the small change of thought.

Half the population (I guess) thinks that any plural ending in s requires an apostrophe, and the other half stands idly by without squirming, if, in fact, it even notices.

Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.

Words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.