Definition of word

"word" in the noun sense

1. word

a unit of language that native speakers can identify

"words are the blocks from which sentences are made"

"he hardly said ten words all morning"

2. word

a brief statement

"he didn't say a word about it"

3. news, intelligence, tidings, word

information about recent and important events

"they awaited news of the outcome"

4. word

a verbal command for action

"when I give the word, charge!"

5. discussion, give-and-take, word

an exchange of views on some topic

"we had a good discussion"

"we had a word or two about it"

6. parole, word, word of honor

a promise

"he gave his word"

7. word

a string of bits stored in computer memory

"large computers use words up to 64 bits long"

8. Son, Word, Logos

the divine word of God the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

9. password, watchword, word, parole, countersign

a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group

"he forgot the password"

10. Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word

the sacred writings of the Christian religions

"he went to carry the Word to the heathen"

"word" in the verb sense

1. give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate

put into words or an expression

"He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"

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Quotations for word

Word for word.

Wary is the word. [ Proverb ]

A word to the wise. [ Proverb ]

Man's word is God in man. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Revenge is an inhuman word. [ Seneca ]

Truth is in thing, not word;
In meaning, not in manner. [ Robert Browning ]

To the wise a word may suffice. [ Proverb ]

Oh, no! we never mention her;
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word. [ T. H. Bayly ]

Word by word big books are made. [ French Proverb ]

O word and thing most beautiful! [ Susan Coolidge ]

A word sooner wounds than heals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Better a good word than a battle. [ Proverb ]

Fame - next grandest word to God! [ Alexander Smith ]

A word spoke is an arrow let fly. [ Proverb ]

A word to the wise is sufficient. [ Terence ]

The unspoken word never does harm. [ Kossuth ]

Put thou thy trust in God;
In duty's path go on;
Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
So shall thy work be done. [ Martin Luther ]

Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed. [ Horatius Bonar ]

A French word for an English malady. [ Chatfield ]

It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whispered word. [ Byron ]

And like some low and mournful spell.
To whisper out the word, Farewell. [ Park Benjamin ]

The word rest is not in my vocabulary. [ Horace Greeley ]

God blesses still the generous thought
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds. [ Whittier ]

My last word to you is. Be courageous. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

My birthday! - what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round.
Less and less white its mark appears. [ Moore ]

Every word he speaks is a syren's note
To draw the careless hearer. [ Beaumont ]

Oh, if there is one thing above the rest
Written in Wisdom - if there is a word
That I would trace as with a pen of fire
Upon the unsullied temper of a child —
If there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits, and repels
The ministry of ill - It is Love. [ N. P. Willis ]

The word is always bolder than the deed. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Who will sell the cow must say the word. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. [ William Shakespeare ]

A single little word can strike him dead. [ Luther ]

One doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking. [ William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Sc.1 ]

How much an ill word may empoison liking! [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word. [ Carlyle ]

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. [ William M. Thackeray ]

A burlesque word is often a mighty sermon. [ Boileau ]

A single word often betrays a great design. [ Racine ]

Dictionaries are word-pictures of language. [ Cox ]

And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. [ Dryden ]

An honest man's word is as good as his bond. [ Cervantes ]

Ornament is but the gilded shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. [ William Shakespeare ]

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As Fail. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

A word spoken in due season, how good is it? [ Bible ]

Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss. [ Pollok ]

No word is ill spoken if it be not ill taken. [ Proverb ]

Take a man by his word and a cow by her horn. [ Proverb ]

The word is short, but not so short as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

He speaks as if every word would lift a dish. [ Proverb ]

A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. [ Proverb ]

An acute word cuts deeper than a sharp weapon. [ Proverb ]

Ennui is an expressive word invented in France. [ Bancroft ]

And here where your praise might yield returns,
And a handsome word or two give help. [ Robert Browning ]

In this world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
To sleep for a season and hear no word
Of true love's truth or of light love's art,
Only the song of a secret bird. [ Swinburne ]

The word is free, action dumb, obedience blind. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain.
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale;
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses, newly washed with dew;
Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Then I'll commend her volubility
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. [ William Shakespeare ]

Better one living word than a hundred dead ones. [ German Proverb ]

Men of business must not break their word twice. [ Proverb ]

In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;
Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dead! God, how much there is in that little word! [ Byron ]

Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire.
Exert that noblest privilege, alone
Here to mankind indulged; control desire:
Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne,
Speak the commanding word I will! and it is done. [ Thomson ]

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

A word and a stone let go, cannot be called back. [ Proverb ]

Gold! gold! in all ages the curse of mankind,
Thy fetters are forged for the soul and the mind.
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird.
And the mind be the slave of a look and a word.
To gain thee men barter eternity's crown,
Yield honour, affection, and lasting renown. [ Park Benjamin ]

Before employing a fine word, find a place for it. [ Joubert ]

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated. [ Lowell ]

Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not. [ William Shakespeare ]

A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. [ Dryden ]

Love - what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear! [ Tupper ]

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it. [ Proverb ]

Never to use a long word when a short word will do. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

If a word be worth a shilling, silence is worth two. [ Proverb ]

Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word.
And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird. [ Francis Thompson ]

That word grace in an ungracious mouth is but profane. [ William Shakespeare ]

A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in dark days. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A man that breaks his word bids others be false to him. [ Proverb ]

Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it. [ Bible ]

A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom. [ Aeschines ]

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity. [ Bentley ]

Virtue: a word easy to pronounce, difficult to understand. [ Voltaire ]

There's a charm in delivery, a magical art,
That thrills like a kiss from the lip to the heart;
It is the glance - the expression - the well-chosen word -
By whose magic the depths of the spirit are stirred.
The lip's soft persuasion - its musical tone:
Oh! such were the charms of that eloquent one! [ Mrs. Welby ]

Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird.
That flies to thy breast at one cherishing word,
That folds its wild wings there, ne'er dreaming of flight.
That tenderly sings there in loving delight!
Oh! my sad heart keeps pining for one fond word,
Call me pet names, dearest! Call me thy bird! [ Mrs. Osgood ]

A good word for a bad one is worth much, and costs little. [ Proverb ]

A good honest man now-a-days is but a better word for a fool. [ Proverb ]

Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. [ Whipple ]

The happiest word is scorned, if the hearer has a twisted ear. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He speaks one word nonsense, and two that have nothing in them. [ Proverb ]

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! [ Beecher ]

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. [ Solomon ]

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. [ Voltaire ]

Feeling is deep and still, and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy that betrays where the anchor is hidden. [ Longfellow ]

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond - sometimes better. [ Dickens ]

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. [ Goethe ]

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is kismet, - fate. [ Macaulay ]

In a word, to be a fine gentleman is to be a generous and brave man. [ Steele ]

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. [ Carlyle ]

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. [ Franklin ]

'Tis a word that's quickly spoken. Which being restrained, a heart is broken. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is worth a cartload of recollection. [ Gray to Palgrave ]

Prosperity is often an equivocal word denoting merely affluence of possession. [ Blair ]

The smallest word has some unguarded spot, and danger lurks in i without a dot. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Every man must have his own style, as he has his own face and his own features. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself. [ Carlyle ]

Do you fear to trust the word of a man whose honesty you have seen in business? [ Terence ]

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. [ Arthur Helps ]

The young writer should remember that bigness is not greatness, nor fury force. [ George William Curtis ]

A sigh, a look, a word from your lips, that is the ambition of a heart like mine. [ Racine ]

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one. [ Montaigne ]

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? [ Addison ]

Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing. [ Proverb ]

If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love. [ Mme. de Spadara ]

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman. [ Hazlitt ]

Take my word for it, the saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

Say what you have to say in the simplest sincerity, in the fewest and shortest words. [ Gerald Massey, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. [ William Shakespeare ]

The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. [ Bible ]

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them? [ Lessing ]

Nor, as a faithful translator, should you be careful to render the original word for word. [ Horace ]

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word, - faith. [ Napoleon I ]

A prude exhibits her virtue in word and manner; a virtuous woman shows hers in her conduct. [ La Bruyere ]

A truth to an age that has rejected and trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a sword. [ Henry George ]

Laurie got offended that I used the word puke. But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. [ Macchiavelli ]

Rascal! That word on the lips of a woman, addressed to a too daring man, often means - angel!

All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong. [ Ruskin ]

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone! [ Shakespeare ]

Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

To write well is to think well; there is no art of style distinct from the culture of the mind. [ Ernest Renan, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The good-finder (if such a barbaric sounding word may be used), is thankful for whatever comes. [ Ossian Lang ]

There is more or less sorrow in the word goodbye, and yet how we like to hear some people say it. [ Emerson ]

The bitter word which closed all earthly friendships, and finished every feast of love, - farewell. [ Pollok ]

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word: Wait! [ Longfellow ]

It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. [ Menander ]

Touch not the lute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. [ Herder ]

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written upon your heart that fearful word satiety. [ Quarles ]

To the warning word no man has respect, only to the flattering and promising is his attention directed. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. [ Emerson ]

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word Yes, at least they say it only after they have said No. [ Jean Paul ]

What a volume could be written on the word mother; what a history of forbearance, of kindness, and of love. [ James Ellis ]

No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced. [ Johnson ]

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us. [ Mme. de Stael ]

It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips. [ Abdel-Kader ]

A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. [ Emerson ]

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word. [ Joseph Roux ]

Never write except when you have something to say, and then say it simply - as Addison, Goldsmith, and Franklin wrote. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

I have tried merely to express what I had to say with as much simplicity and as little affectation as I could command. [ James A. Froude, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

You have to go below the surface of words and actually feel them. This helps you choose the just-right word for your copy. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]

Always! that is a dreadful word. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Any style is good if you have something you have a call to say, and men ought to hear; and no style is good if you haven't. [ Thomas Hughes, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there. And none so poor to do him reverence. [ William Shakespeare ]

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise. [ Zoroaster ]

No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may. [ Carlyle ]

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Good poetry has a lot in common with good copy. A poem evokes vivid images and strong emotions through very careful word choice. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]

How long a time lies in one little word! Four lagging winters and four wanton springs End in a word: such is the breath of kings. [ William Shakespeare ]

The expressive word quiet defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street. [ N. P. Willis ]

I knew a wise man who had it for a by-word when he saw men hasten to a conclusion: Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. [ Bacon ]

There is a magic in the word duty, something I know not what, which sustains magistrates, inflames warriors, and cools married people. [ H. Dupuy ]

A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf. [ Trench ]

The good writer never chooses a word at hazard, or without noting its harmony in sound as well as sense with what precedes and follows. [ Sir Edwin Arnold, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

No dynamite will ever be invented that can rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern. [ John Ruskin ]

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful indeed what we say. [ Confucius ]

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

There is a better thing than the great man who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. [ William Winter ]

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! [ Scott ]

Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand, than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence. [ Lavater ]

When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]

That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together. [ Georg Ebers ]

The word independence is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word dependence is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption. [ Bentham ]

I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. [ George Eliot ]

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning. [ Mark Twain ]

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not, sooner or later, responded. [ Lowell ]

Great libraries of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats - that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners! [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Every thought and word and deed, of every human being, is followed by its inevitable consequence: for the one we are responsible; with the other we have nothing to do. [ Gail Hamilton ]

A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

God never pardons: the laws of His universe are irrevocable. God always pardons: sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life. [ William Smith ]

A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The last word is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. [ Boileau ]

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word effrontery comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. [ Leigh Hunt ]

I have strictly adhered to the rule of never copying. I write at once as I intend the words to stand. This leads to great precision of thought, and makes the style fresh and vigorous. [ Louisa Molesworth, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first [ Joubert ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]

Health - the silliest word in our language, and one knows the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place, as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend. [ Ruskin ]

The joys of heaven are without example, above experience, and beyond imagination - for which the whole creation wants a comparison; we, an apprehension; and even the Word of God, a revelation. [ Bishop Norris ]

The main thing in writing is to have distinct, and clear, and well-marshalled ideas, and then to express them simply and without affectation. This forms what we may call the bones of a good style. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The accusing spirit, which flew off to heaven's chancery with the oath blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. [ Sterne ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue, - I mean good-nature, - are of daily use: they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. [ Dryden ]

The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion. [ Tertullian ]

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words - mank and ind. What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. [ Samuel Warren ]

What is commonly called friendship is no more than a partnership, a reciprocal regard for one another's interests, and an exchange of good offices; in a word, mere traffic, wherein self-love always proposes to be a gainer. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Plead or Pleaded? He plead not guilty or He pleaded not guilty. Pleaded, not plead, constitutes the imperfect tense and the perfect participle of the verb to plead. Hence, in the example quoted the correct word is pleaded. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, - feel it, and hate in silence. [ Washington Allston ]

Give not thy tongue too great a liberty, lest it take thee prisoner. A word unspoken is like the sword in the scabbard, thine; if vented, thy sword is in another's hand. If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. [ Quarles ]

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. [ Tupper ]

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the same moment; but a moment is room enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash of a murderous thought, and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. [ George Eliot ]

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]

The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]

Noted or Notorious? As adjectives, these terms are sometimes misused; as, He is a noted criminal. The better word here would be notorious, the meaning of which is restricted to that which is bad; while noted may be used in either a good or a bad sense. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Without attempting a formal definition of the word, I am inclined to consider rhetoric, when reduced to a system in books, as a body of rules derived from experience and observation, extending to all communications by language, and designed to make it efficient. [ W. E. Channing ]

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath. [ Swift ]

In the hour of distress and misery, the eye of every mortal turns to friendship; in the hour of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet and sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? My friend. [ W. S. Landor ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

The word necessary is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. [ Lord Halifax ]

Perpetually or Continually? Perpetual means never ceasing, continuing without interruption; continual, of frequent recurrence, etc., with occasional interruptions. Indolent pupils are perpetually failing in the tasks assigned them. Here the proper word is continually. Time is perpetual; frequent disregard of our duties is continual. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. [ Hazlitt ]

Occur or Transpire? The misuse of these words is very common. Occur means simply to take place, to happen; transpire to leak out, to come to light. Hence, it is incorrect to say, The annual school exhibition transpired last week. The proper word here is occurred. But transpire is correctly used in such a sentence as, The proceedings of the caucus have not yet transpired. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]

Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]

See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]

If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]

My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

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