Words Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Words are the clothes that thoughts wear — only the clothes.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English author
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clearer.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French essayist and moralist
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
“When I use a word! Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) English writer, mathematician
Would you repeat that again, sir, for it soun’ssae sonorous that the words droon the ideas?
John Wilson (1785-1854) Scottish philosopher
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs consent fertilisation or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) British novelist
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) British author
In fact, words are well adapted for description and arousing of emotions, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) British scientist
