Language Quote by Henry Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

— Henry Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

— Henry Brooks Adams

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

— Henry David Thoreau

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

— Neil Gaiman

Not a man to mince words. People, yes. But not words.

— Terry Crowley

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 language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

— Colleen Hoover

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you…

— Philippa Gregory

Words are just words until you mean what you say

— Anonymous

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

— Walter Lippmann

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually…

— Paul de Man