Words Quotes

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

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

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

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Sir Winston Churchill

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

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

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

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

Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

John Christian Bovee

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato the Elde

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

Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.

Antonio Salieri, title of an opera

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...

CIA Manual

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

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

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer, The Iliad

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi

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

I banish fear with two words: you lead.

Demetri Kolokotronis

When words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Anderson

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Joan Baez

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis