Words Quotes
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.Margaret Hilda Thatche
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
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
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
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
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.Chinese Prove
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?Buddha (563 - 483 B. C.)
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
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.St. Francis of Assissi
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?Eknath Easwaran
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.Andrew Alden
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.Sophocles
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.Bertha Flowers
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.Saint Francis of Assisi
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.Confucius
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Use soft words and hard arguments.English Prove
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.Oliver Wendell Holmes
