Words Quotes

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Eddie Myers

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Thales

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Harold Ross

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.

Gamal Abdel Nasse

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

George Eliot

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Robert Frost

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Field Marshall John French

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

Moralia

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Sidney Madwed

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

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

William Shakespeare

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Fred R. Barnard

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

Samuel Johnson

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.

Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie

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

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Jason Mraz

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

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