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Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

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 – Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
 – An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt. II, l. 109

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.

Spaces define which letters go together to make up a word.

Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?

My favourite word in the English language is »language«. However, if you gave me a slightly larger set of words to choose from I might have more difficulty expressing a preference.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

We had words. Each and every evening.

Sometimes, when he stopped for beer after work, we had dishes and pots and food, too.

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

Words beginning with the »sn« sound in English are often unpleasant: snide, snob, snigger, sneer, snicker, snub, snert, snotty, snippy, snit, snarl, snore, sneak, snag. »Snow« is a word over which there is debate and even an annual change of heart. The first snowfall is almost always welcomed. Christmas snow is considered magical. But too much of a good thing for too long and March blizzards push »snow« into line with the rest of the »sn« words.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

(Mark Twain)

Spaces define which letters to together to make up a word.