Words Quotes

Robert frost - there are tones of voices that mean more than...
Father jerome cummings - love is shown in your deeds, not in your words....
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
Sir philip sidney - but words came halting forth, wanting inventions...
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
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
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parke
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.)
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
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
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.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
Victor Hugo
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
Patrick Overton
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beeche
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley, unknown
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao - Tzu
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
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon
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
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.
Serge Kahili King
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Hedrick Smith
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard