Words Quotes
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.Russian Prove
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
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.Jiddu Krishnamurti
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.Napoleon
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
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
Words must be weighed, not counted.Polish Prove
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.Joan Baez
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
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
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.Dennis Roch
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.William Carlos Williams
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.Herbert Spence
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.Unknown
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
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.George Eliot
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.Aprocrypha
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.Manly P. Hall
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
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.Hermann Weyl
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
