Words Quotes

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

Learned Hand

There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Jason Mraz

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

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

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

Confucius

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

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will follow

Cato the Censor (?)

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

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

Marcel Marceau

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Sidney Madwed

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Harold Ross

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley, unknown

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato the Elde

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

Mother Teresa

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

Jose Antonio Burciaga

Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

Abraham Lincoln

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

We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

Serge Kahili King

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Anonymous

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menande

Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

William Shakespeare

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!

John Greenleaf Whittie

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Stanislaw Lec

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.

William Shakespeare

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett