Words Quotes

William shakespeare - the peace of heaven is theirs that lift their...
Rudyard kipling - words are, of course, the most powerful drug used...
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian Prove
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spence
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
Eric hoffe - one might equate growing up with a mistrust of...
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
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Stewart Paton
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.
Jewish Prove
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.
Margaret Hilda Thatche
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
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
Anonymous
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Sir Winston Churchill
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Poetry the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
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
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurie
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parke
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce