Language Quote by Wilson Follett

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

— Alfred Marshall

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

— Slavoj Žižek

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.

— Sorin Cerin

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

— William Safire

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

— Norton Juster

The words that matter always stay.

— David Levithan

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

— Gloria Naylor

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

— Peter Elbow

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

— Agnes Martin

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein