Words are but empty thanks.
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Woman's Wit, Act V (1697).Colley Cibber
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I can see this, I suppose you could call it, aura of colors that words can't describe around living things. And when something dies the aura fades leaving something that's not easy to look at. It appears empty in a way that makes you feel empty too!
Mark Waid
Empty pockets never held anyone back...it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.
Norman Vincent Peale
There are also Idols formed by the intercourse and association of men with each other, which I call Idols of the Market Place, on account of the commerce and consort of men there. For it is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into numberless empty controversies and idle fancies.
Francis Bacon
What is this eternity to me without you?
What is the infinity of my domains?
Empty ringing words,
A spacious temple — without a divinity!Mikhail Lermontov
Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.
Anthony Burgess
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