"The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men." - Dionysius Cato

"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words." - T. S. Eliot

"Words are but the signs of ideas." - Samuel Johnson

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." - Alexander Pope

"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Suppose, for example, I see a vessel on the stocks, walk up and smash the bottle hung at the stem, proclaim 'I name this ship the 'Mr Stalin'' and for good measure kick away the chocks; but the trouble is, I was not the person chosen to name it..." - Austin, J. L. in 'How to do Things with Words'

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)

"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places." - Milne, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956) in 'Winnie the Pooh'

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Reaper Man'