Words Quotes

For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.

Winnie the Pooh

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

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

Jason Mraz

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer, The Odyssey

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.

Emily Dickenson

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Jonathan Swift

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ? I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.

Ramtha

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 one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

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

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Fred R. Barnard

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

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

Gamal Abdel Nasse

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

Henry James

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

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

Samuel Johnson

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

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

Homer, The Iliad

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will follow

Cato the Censor (?)

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Henry Fielding

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley, unknown

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menande

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

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

Ambrose Bierce

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Polish Prove

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

Emily Dickinson