Aristophanes Quotes

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

Words are the small change of thought.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Words are all we have.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.