Words Quotes

Alfred tennyson - words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal...
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
Buddha (563 - 483 b. c.) - however many holy words you read, however many...
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
Lech walesa - i must tell you that the supply of words on the...
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittie
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
Patrick Overton
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.
Michael J. Gel
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.
Marcel Marceau
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
Home
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
Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John M. Keynes
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.
A. S. Neill
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
Ugo Betti
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luthe
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato the Elde
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Bertha Flowers
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.
Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.
Penelope Fitzgerald
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
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James