Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Words are like leaves, and when they most abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope.

Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they 10 show / Where the mind ends, and not how far it has been. Bailey.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. Izaak Walton.

Words are rather the drowsy part of poetry; imagination the life of it. Owen Feltham.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more. Bailey.

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling like dew upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Byron.

Words are wise men's counters, but they are 15 the money of fools. Hobbes.

Words are women, deeds are men. George Herbert.

Words become luminous when the finger of the poet touches them with his phosphorus. Joubert.

Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that the heart did neither hatch nor harbour. Feltham.