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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

“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.

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.

Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.

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

»Therefore« is a word the poet must not know.

(Andre Gide)

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

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

(Mark Twain)

The word on my mind right now is >>weekend<<. It's only a few hours away!

I can't wait to get away from this office!!

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

Spaces define which letters to together to make up a word.

on Mar 22nd 2001, 02:07:31, Natasha Jordan wrote the following about

word

Think how much acceptance Mary showed when she said:

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

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And how much courage.

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