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
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.Learned Hand
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.Edward Thorndike
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.Wendell Johnson
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
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
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
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
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.Mother Theresa
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.Francis Quarles
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.Sir Winston Churchill
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.Homer, The Odyssey
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
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
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.Lech Walesa
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.John Ruskin
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.Edward R. Murrow
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.Andrew Alden
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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
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
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
