#words

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ↗

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ↗

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#every #fool #guard #hour #jealous

A fool and his words are soon parted. ↗

— William Shenstone

#his #parted #soon #words

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

For me, words are just words, nothing else. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#just #me #nothing #words

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#love

Words of love, are works of love. ↗

— William R. Alger

#words #works

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. ↗