Words Quotes

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

Winnie the Pooh

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

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Hermann Weyl

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

Words divide us, actions unite us.

Slogan of the Tupamaros

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

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

Cato the Censor (?)

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Robert Frost

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

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Hedrick Smith

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Robert Fulghum

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Menande

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

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

Confucius

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.

Lewis Mumford

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

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavate

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann von Goethe

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Polish Prove

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

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

Anatole France

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

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

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation - Rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson