Words Quotes

Isaiah - and he shall judge among the nations, and shall...
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer, The Iliad
Lao - tzu - kindness in words creates confidence. kindness in...
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
George du maurie - sick i am of idle words, past all reconciling,...
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
Anatole France
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
Unknown
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
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
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
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
South
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.
Winnie the Pooh
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.
Lewis Mumford
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Tennyson
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
Abba Eban
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian Prove
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
Words must be weighed, not counted.
Polish Prove
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson