Words Quotes

Abigail adams, letter to john adams, 1774 - we have too many high sounding words, and too few...
Anatole france - the finest words in the world are only vain...
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Lech Walesa
Gilbert keith chesterton - the only words that ever satisfied me as...
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003
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.
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
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
Words must be weighed, not counted.
Polish Prove
Speak what you think to - Day in words as hard as cannon - Balls and to - Morrow speak what to - Morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to - Day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Andrew Alden
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Sir Winston Churchill
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicholas Boileau
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
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
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
Learned Hand
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
Florence Shinn
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis Mcginley
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
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian Prove
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
George Gordon Byron