High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
The Moral is that gardeners pine,
Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.
Of all sad words experience gleans,
The saddest are : "It might have beans.
(I did not make this up myself:
'Twas in a book upon my shelf.
It's witty, but I don't deny
It's rather Whittier than I.)
Words writ in waters.
George Chapman—Revenge for Honour. Act
V. Sc. 2.
Words are but empty thanks.
Colley Cibber—Woman's Wit. Act V.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Clarke—Parosmiohgia. P. 12.
Quoted "soft words."
(Ed. 1639)
M urn's the word.
George Colman the Younger—Battle of Hexham. Act II. Sc. 1.
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius—Analects. Bk. XX. Ch. Ill
g
Words that weep, and tears that speak.
Cowley—The Prophet. St. 2. L. 8.
| seealso = (See also Mallet, also Gray under Thought)
| topic = Words
| page = 903
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{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word
Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips.
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism are
all very good words for the lips; especially prunes
and prism.
| author = Dickens
| work = Dombey and Son.
| place = Pt. II. Ch. V.
| seealso = (See also Burgoyne, Goldsmith)
| topic = Words
| page = 903
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
| author = Wentworth Dillon
| work = Art of Poetry.
| place = L. 442.
| seealso = (See also Bacon)
| topic = Words
| page = 903
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>It used to be a common saying of Myson's
that men ought not to seek for things in words,
but for words in things; for that things are not
made on account of words but that words are
put together for the sake of things.
Diogenes Laerttus—Lives of thePhihsophers.
Bk. I. Myson. Ch. III.
I trade both with the living and the dead for
the enrichment of our native language.
Dryden—Dedication to translation of The
Æneid.
And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.
Dryden—Mac Flechnoe. L. 208.
Let thy words be few.
V. 2. i
Let no man deceive you with vain words.
Ephesians. V. 6.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we
would.
George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.
| seealso = (See also Bacon)
What if my words
Were meant for deeds.
George Eliot—The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. III.
is An undisputed power
Of coining money from the rugged ore,
Nor less of coining words, is still confessed,
If with a legal public stamp impressed.
Philip Francis—Horace, Art of Poetry.
New words and lately made shall credit claim
If from a Grecian source they gently stream.
Philip Francis—Horace, Art of Poetry.
That blessed word Mesopotamia.
Garrick tells of the power of George Whitebteld's voice, "he could make men either
laugh or cry by pronouncing the word Mesopotamia." Related by Francis Jacox. An
old woman said she found great support in
that comfortable word Mesopotamia. See
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.
Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.
The words you've bandied are sufficient;
'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
Goethe—Faust. Vorspiel auf dem Theater.
L. 214.
Gewohnlieh glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur
Worte hort,
Es miisse sich dabei doch auch was denken.
Man usually believes, if only words be hears,
That also with them goes material for thinking
Goethe—Faust. I. 6. 230.
Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.
The rabble also vent their rage in words.
Goethe—Torquato Tasso. II. 2. 201.
At this every lady drew up her mouth as if
going to pronounce the letter P.
| author = Goldsmith
| work = Letter to Bobt. Bryanton. Sept..
1758.
| seealso = (See also Dickens)
| topic = Words
| page = 903
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>If of all words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are, "It might have been,"
More sad are these we daily see,
"It is, but it hadn't ought to be."
