Common Quote by Alfred Marshall

Words take on many different meanings.

— Erin McKean

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.

— Daisy Whitney

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

— Beth Orton

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.

— Richard Dawkins

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

— George Eliot

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

— Saint Augustine

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus:…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

— Dave Barry

Not all words fit into their meanings. Sometimes, what is said is not what is meant and what is meant is left unsaid

— Abhishek Tiwari

“the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein