word

   Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: according to thy word. See Bible (NewTestament) 115:27.

—Bible (Vulgate)

And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   Criticssearchforagesfor thewrong word, which, togive them credit, they eventually find.

—Ustinov, Sir PeterAlexander

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

—Pope, Alexander

I found myself growing increasingly irritated with the notion of a British novel, which was really an irritation with the word British, a grey, unsatisfactory, bad- weather kind of word, a piece of linguistic compromise.

—Buford, Bill (William Holmes)

Lo! thy dread empire,Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

—Pope, Alexander

Bilbo's the word, and slaughter will ensue.

—Congreve,William

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

—James,William

   We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we from time to time most grievouslyhave committed,By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us.

—Book of Common Prayer

The Church's one foundation Is Jesus Christ, her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the word; From heaven he came and sought her To be his holy bride, With his own blood he bought her. And for her life he died.

—Stone, Samuel John

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore they have no shame. They have the power to ask for love because they don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give. But we, who have love, and long to mingle it with the love of others: we cannot utter a word.You find that, don't you?

—Shaw, George Bernard

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a wordöthe men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

—Larkin, Philip Arthur

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Have mercy upon all Jews,Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks, and take fromthem all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word.

—Book of Common Prayer

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day.

—Higley, Brewster   d.1911

For every word has its marrow in the English tongue for order and for delight. For the dissyllables such as able table &c are the fiddle rhymes. For all dissyllables and some trissyllables are fiddle rhymes. For the relations of words are in pairs first. For the relations of words are sometimes in oppositions. For the relations of words are according to their distances from the pair.

—Smart, Christopher

  I once said in an interview that every word she writes is a lie, including 'and'and 'the'.

—McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that hemight maketheeknow that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the L doth man live.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Mandalay has its name; the falling cadence of the lovely word has gathered about itself the chiaroscuro of romance.

—Maugham,W(illiam) Somerset

My final word, before I'm done, Is 'Cancer can be rather fun'. Thanks to the nurses and Nye Bevan The NHS is quite like heaven Provided one confronts the tumour With a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt one till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts.

—Haldane,J(ohn) B(urdon) S(anderson)

Science says the first word on everything and the last word on nothing.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

My dear chap! Good isn't the word!

—Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

Make up your mind dearheart.Do you want to be a great actor or a household word?

—Olivier, Laurence Kerr, Baron

'That's a great deal tomake one word mean,'Alicesaid in a thoughtful tone. 'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,'said Humpty Dumpty,'I always pay it extra.'

—Dodgson

The Greeks Had a Word for It. Albee

—Akins, Zoe«

  'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'

—Barthelme, Donald

Behold,I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Philistinism!öWe have not the expression in English. Perhapswehavenottheword because wehavesomuch of the thing.

—Arnold, Matthew

But hethat received seed into the good ground ishethat heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

—Renoir, Pierre Auguste

   Leonora, Leonora, How the word rollsöLeonoraö Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime; So your name moves, Leonora, Down my desert rhyme.

—Craik, Dinah Maria ne¤  e Mulock

If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

En un mot, l'homme conna|"t qu'il est mise¤  rable: il est donc mise¤  rable, puisqu'il l'est; mais il est bien grand, puisqu'il le conna|"t. In one word, man knows that he is miserable and therefore he is miserable because he knows it; but he is also worthy, because he knows his condition.

—Pascal, Blaise

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize†only be sure always to call it please 'research'.

—Lehrer,Tom (Thomas Andrew)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Polyphiloprogenitive The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift across the window-panes In the beginning was the Word.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

No' wan in fifty kens a wurd Burns wrote But misapplied is a'body's property

—Grieve

Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said,It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined bya hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall payany price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

—Farjeon, Eleanor

   Music is Love in search of a word.

—Lanier, Sidney

Man's word is God in man.

—Tennyson

'Good', then, if we mean by it that quality which we assert to belong to a thing, when we say that the thing is good, is incapable of any definition, in the most important sense of the word.

—Moore, G(eorge) E(dward)

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men: But, at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. No simple word, That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning: or affright The liberty, that we'll enjoy tonight.

—Jonson, Ben

As to woman's subjection†it is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.

—Stanton, Elizabeth ne¤  e  Cady

He replied that I must needs be mistaken, or that I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)

—Swift,Jonathan

   Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

—Doddridge, Philip

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit inthe face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny,Time, Love, Beauty†what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off-key perhaps, but I will sing.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the L be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

—Bible (Old Testament)

'By God,'quod he,'for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!'

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

Polyester†the most valuable word to come out of the 70s, the one that defines tacky for all time.

—Anonymous

My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feelöit is, before all, to make you see.Thatöand no more, and it is everything.

—Korzeniowski

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Estou farto do lirismo comedido Do lirismo bem comportado Do lirismo funciona¤  rio p u¤ blico com livro de ponto expediente protocolo e manifesta c° o‹  es de apre c° o ao Sr Diretor. Estou farto do lirismo que pa¤  ra e vai averiguar no diciona¤  rio o cunho verna¤  culo de um voca¤  bulo. Abaixo os puristas I'm sick of cautious lyricism of well-behaved lyricism of a civil servant lyricism complete with time card office hours set procedures and expressions of esteem for Mr Boss, Sir. I'm sick of the lyricism that has to stop in midstream to look up the precise meaning of a word. Down with purists!

—Bandeira, Manuel

'The firm'öa proud Victorian word.It evokes the lost sense of Victorian regard for the pride of people in their daily trade.

—Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)

  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord G, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the L: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the L, and shall not find it.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Nobodycansayaword against Greek: it stamps a manat once as an educated gentleman.

—Shaw, George Bernard

A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

   The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in this monumental struggle. I venture to speak a solemn word of warning. The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name during these days that are to try men's souls.We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.

—Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow

Foras therain cometh down, and thesnow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and makethit bring forthand bud, that it maygiveseedtothe sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

—Bible (Old Testament)

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

—Schweitzer, Albert

The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and myservant shall be healed.For Iama man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man,Go, and he goeth; and to another,Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed,Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Then up and started our gudewife, Gied three skips on the floor: 'Gudeman, ye've spoken the foremost word, Get up and bar the door.'

—Ballads

Et si uxoris nomen sanctius ac validius videtur, dulcius mihi semper exstitit amic× vocabulum; aut si non indigneris, concubin× vel scorti. Ifthename of wifeseemsmore blessed or more binding, always sweeter to me will be the word lover, or if I may, concubine or whore.

—He¤  lo|«  se

Taa«  ke my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad.

—Tennyson

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.

—Fitzgerald, Edward

'Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,' he said.

—de la Mare,Walter

And it is that word 'hummy', my darlings, that marks the first place in'The House at Pooh Corner'at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

—Landor,Walter Savage

Alone† The word is life endured and known. It is the stillness where our spirits walk And all but inmost faith is overthrown.

—Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain

No! I swear by the slinkers, the runners, the sinkers, by the night swarming, by the dawn sighing, truly this is the word of a noble Messenger.

—The Koran

The word, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. This one may be called 'value in use'; the other,'value in exchange'. The things which have the greatest value in usehave frequently little or novalue in exchange; and on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water: but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it.

—Smith, Adam

Here I must say, in my eighty-sixth year, I do not feel greatly different from when I was eighty-five. This is my final word. It is time for me to become an apprentice once more. I have not settled in which direction. But somewhere, sometime soon.

—Baron

O luely, luely cam she in And luely she lat doun: I kent her be her caller lips And her breists sae sma'an'roun'. A'thru the nicht we spak nae word Nor sinder'd bane frae bane: A'thru the nicht I heard her hert Gang soundin' wi'myain.

—Soutar,William

Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram: Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in Acrostic Land. There thou mayest wings displayand altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

—Dryden,John

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel

God, whoat sundry times and indiversmannersspake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom he also made the worlds: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

The ache to utter and see in word The silhouette of a brooding soul.

—Sandburg, Carl

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

—Redon, Odilon

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!

—Ginsberg, Allen

Oh,iftheQueenwereaman,shewouldliketogoandgive those Russians, whose word one cannot believe, such a beating! We shall never be friends again till we have it out.

—Victoria in full  Alexandrina Victoria

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

   Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?† To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.

—Trollope, Anthony

When all philosophies shall fail, This word alone shall fit; That a sage feels too small for life, And a fool too large for it.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

The word 'civilization'to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing† Civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

Desire paces Eternityas if it had bounds, craving death. The Word climbs upward into Its crown.

—Dunbar,William

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o  u' il y a le moins de matie'  re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense¤  e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.

—Flaubert, Gustave

Word has somehow got around that the split infinitive is always wrong.That is of a piece with the outworn notion that it is always wrong to strike a lady.

—Thurber,James Grover

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.

—Lydgate,John

A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.

—Keats,John

A word is the carving and colouring of a thought, and gives it permanence.

—Sitwell, Sir (Francis) Osbert

Le mot, c'est leVerbe, et leVerbe, c'est Dieu. The word is theVerb, and theVerb is God.

—Hugo,Victor Marie

'There's glory for you!' 'I don't know what you mean by ''glory'','Alice said. 'Imeant,''there's a niceknock-down argument for you!''' 'But ''glory''doesn't mean''a nice knock-down argument'','Alice objected. 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone,'it means just what I choose it to meanöneither more nor less.'

—Dodgson

   If the cardinal points of costume are Robes,Tato, Rig and Scunge, where are shorts in this compass? Theyare the never Robes as other bareleg outfits have been: the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava, the Mahatma's cotton dhoti; archbishops and field marshals at their ceremonies never wear shorts. The very word means underpants in North America.

—Murray, Les(lie Allan)

   How few the days are that hold the mind in place; like a tapestry hanging on four or five hooks. Especially the day you stop becoming; the day you merelyare. I suppose it's when the principles dissolve, and instead of the general gray of what ought to be you begin to see what is† The word 'Now' is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

—Miller, Arthur

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the L hand double for all her sins. The voice of himthat crieth in the wilderness,Prepare ye the way of the L, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valleyshall be exalted,and everymountainand hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the L shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the L hath spoken it. The voicesaid,Cry. And hesaid,What shall Icry? All flesh isgrass, and all thegoodlinessthereof isastheflowerof the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the L bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Fluent in all the languages dead or living, the sun comes up with a word of worlds all spinning in a world of words.

—Curnow, (Thomas) Allen Munro

To Day Ipronuncedawordwhichshould nevercome out of a ladys lips it was that I called John a Impudent Bitch.

—Fleming, Marjory

Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twentyand forty.

—Faulkner,William Harrison

A word spoken in due season, how good is it!

—Bible (Old Testament)

But a word stung him like a mosquito† For what they hear, they repeat!

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa

Writing is†waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

—Wilbur, Richard

And theWord wasmade flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Signs are taken for wonders.'We would see a sign!' The word within the word, unable to speak a word, Swaddled with darkness. In the juvescence of the year Came Christ the tiger.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)