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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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 – Horace (65-8 B.C.)
 – Epistles, bk. I, epistle xviii, l. 71

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?

And then some more words come along and a paragraph is born.

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

»Let it be done to me according to thy word.«

I bought one of those Word-A-Day calendars to improve my vocabulary for college.

reify – to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.

“Be careful what you say—you may have to eat your words.”

I don’t think so much about eating my words as about wearing them. When someone sees me, the words come back to haunt like a miasma around me. No matter how colourful my dress, bad words turn everything grey and muddy brown.

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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

(Mark Twain)

'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'

The old folks say that the spoken word is the garment of the soul. What man of true wit would clothe his beloved in filth and tatters?

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.

The best way to discover new words is by reading a book.