Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. ~ Aldous Huxley
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. ~ Ingrid Bengis
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. ~ John Maynard Keynes
Deeds, not words shall speak me. ~ John Fletcher
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ~ Robert Southey
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ~ Confucius
By words the mind is winged. ~ Aristophanes
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. ~ Jewish Proverb
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts. ~ Robert Fulghum
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