Words Quotes
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?Abba Eban
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowpe
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
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.Lewis Mumford
When words fail, music speaks.Hans Christian Anderson
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.John Dewey
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.Epictetus
Value your words. Each one may be the last.Stanislaw Lec
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
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.Thomas Jefferson
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.Alexander Pope
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
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
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.Martin Luthe
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.Menande
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.Leo Tolstoy
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self - Reliance", 1841
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
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order - Poetry the best words in the best order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will followCato the Censor (?)
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.Anonymous
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.Learned Hand
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.Father Jerome Cummings
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
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".
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
