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{{Hoyt quote | num = 11 | text = The word impossible is not in my dictionary. Napoleon I. (See also {{sc|Bulwer-lytton}} under {{sc|Failure) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 12 | text = Things were first made, then words. Sib T. Overbuht—A Wife. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 13 | text = Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hie contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui! Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. Ovn>—Ad Liviam. 9. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 14 | text = Nbn opus est verbis, credite rebus. There is no need of words; believe facts. Ovid—Fasti. II. 734. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses. The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath. Pascal—Lettres Provinciates. II. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 16 | text = In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus. We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. Plautcs—Pseudolus. I. 3. 135. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 17 | text = Words will build no walls. Plutarch—Life of Pericles. Cratinus ridiculed the long wall Pericles proposed to build. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 18 | text = Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Criticism. L. 309. | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 19 | text = 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. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Criticism. L. 333. | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 20 | text = Each word-catcher, that lives on syllables. | author = Pope | work = Prologue to Satires, 166. | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 21 | text = They say » * * That, putting all his words together, 'Tis three blue beans in one blue bladder.

Prior—Alma. Canto I. L. 26. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 22 | text = A word spoken in good season, how good is it! Proverbs. XV. 23. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 23 | text = A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Proverbs. XXV. 11. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 24 | text = The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil. yet were they drawn swords. Psalms. LV. 21. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 25 | text = Inanis verborum torrens. An unmeaning torrent of words. QUINTILIAN. 10. 7. 23. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 26 | text = Souvent d'un grand dessein un mot nous fait juger. A single word often betrays a great design. Racine—Athalie. II. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 27 | text = He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. John Ray—On Creation. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Words | page = 905 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 28 | text = One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other. | author = Roosevelt | work = | place = | note = Speech, at St. Louis, May 31, 1916. "Weasel word" taken from a story by Stewart Chaplin in Century Magazine, June, 1900. | topic = Words | page = 905 }}