Words Quotes

Pythagoras - do not say a little in many words but a great...
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
Samuel taylor coleridge - poetry the best words in the best order....
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
Jean paul richte - never part without loving words to think of...
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
Anonymous
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
Sidney Madwed
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.
John William Fletche
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
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 Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.
Jewish Prove
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer, The Iliad
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
Jason Mraz
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.
Winnie the Pooh
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
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
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon