Words Quotes

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

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

William Shakespeare

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

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

John M. Keynes

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774

Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.

William Cowpe

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Martin Luther King, 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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Victor Hugo

James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George Du Maurie

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Jonathan Swift

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

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

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 words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Ricthe

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

Poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Ingrid Bergman

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer, The Iliad