Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
A word is worth a thousand pictures.
...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.
I'm no heartthrob. Honestly, I am really happy that people are just giving me a chance and paying attention to what it is I have to say, because I certainly hope I have a lot more to say than I do to look at. That's more important to me.
How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some words are open. Love is a word another kind of open — As a diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside. Take my word for jewel in your open light.
My father was the first to read in his family, and he said to me that words were the first beautiful thing he ever knew.
A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.
Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
Nowadays what isn't worth saying is sung.
Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.
Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.
Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
