Words Quotes
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
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
One picture is worth a thousand words.Fred R. Barnard
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
But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.Lord Byron
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.Father Jerome Cummings
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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
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
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.Mary McCarthy
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.William Arthur Ward
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
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.John Greenleaf Whittie
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.Homer, The Iliad
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
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
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
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.Thomas Jefferson
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
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
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
