Words Quotes

Samuel johnson - do not accustom yourself to use big words for...
Sidney madwed - words can be like baseball bats when used...
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh
Richard milhous nixon - as this long and difficult war ends, i would like...
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.
Jewish Prove
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
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
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare
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
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian Prove
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Ricthe
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - - Up to fifty words used in correct context - - No human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will follow
Cato the Censor (?)
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.
Saint Francis of Assisi
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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
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
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
Jason Mraz
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman
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".
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
Poetry the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
Neil Postman
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe