Words Quotes

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Jean Paul Richte

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Stanislaw Lec

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann von Goethe

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - - Up to fifty words used in correct context - - No human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Eddie Myers

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Words divide us, actions unite us.

Slogan of the Tupamaros

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

When words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Anderson

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Jose Antonio Burciaga

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.

Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

John Fletche

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Speak what you think to - Day in words as hard as cannon - Balls and to - Morrow speak what to - Morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to - Day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.

Marcel Marceau

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?

Buddha (563 - 483 B. C.)

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luthe

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Stewart Paton