#words

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is. ↗

— Sophocles

#cure #heavier #hush #ill #make

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#deeds #illustrious #life #make #more

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#first #first principle #flow #forum #free

The best of us must sometimes eat our words. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#eat #must #our #sometimes #us

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#self-sacrifice #sacrifice

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#first #i #independent #kind #relation

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#appetite #color #does #firmness #itself

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. ↗

— Carol Shields

#human #i #i think #language #less

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it. ↗

— John Shirley

#carried #drink #drunk #get #i