Words Quotes
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift
One picture is worth a thousand words.Fred R. Barnard
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.Father Jerome Cummings
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
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Arthur Baldwin
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
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?Abba Eban
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
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.Learned Hand
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.Unknown
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
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
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.Manly P. Hall
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
The body says what words cannot.Martha Graham
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.William Shakespeare
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
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
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.Mother Theresa
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
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
