Words Quotes
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
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
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.Orson Scott Card
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.Victor Hugo
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicolas Boileau
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
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
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.John Greenleaf Whittie
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
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Rudyard Kipling
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.Mary McCarthy
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.Florence Scovel Shinn
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.Ruth Hubbard
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.William Arthur Ward
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.Mother Teresa
Poetry the best words in the best order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
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
