Words Quotes
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.Alexander Pope
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
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?Buddha (563 - 483 B. C.)
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
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
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
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
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.Father Jerome Cummings
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
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
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.Cato the Elde
Deeds, not words shall speak me.John Fletche
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.Manly P. Hall
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.John Dewey
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
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.Victor Hugo
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
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
