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| In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. | | Winston Churchill | |
| In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside | | Alexander Pope | |
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| It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either. | | Wayne Dyer | |
| It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. | | T.S. Eliot | |
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| Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
| My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire | | James Joyce | |
| One great use of words is to hide our thoughts | | Voltaire | |
| Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones | | Bible | |
| Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing | | Bible | |
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| Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services | | Henry Ford | |
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| Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons | | Aldous Huxley | |
| The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. | | Philip K. Dick | |
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| The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them | | Anatole France | |
| The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. | | Daniel J. Boorstin | |
