The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Papa potatoes poultry prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are as standing in a dictionary how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.

Every day we should hear at least one little song read one good poem see one exquisite picture and if possible speak a few sensible words.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

However many holy words you read however many you speak what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation but deeds can be done only for God.

As children as we learn what things are we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults entirely submerged in words and concepts we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Words matter especially words defining complicated political arrangements because they shape perceptions of the events of the past attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

There's a great power in words if you don't hitch too many of them together.

My parents and librarians along the way taught me about the space between words about the margins where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed in the friendliest way.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him and to speak painful truth through loving words that is friendship.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other always using friendly and sincere words.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you so when you start trying to count them on one hand you don't need any fingers.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Three simple words - freedom justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.