Words Quotes
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
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.Richard Milhous Nixon
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.Epictetus
Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will followCato the Censor (?)
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.William Shakespeare
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
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.Ambrose Bierce
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.Herman Melville
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".
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.Unknown
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order - Poetry the best words in the best order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.Orson Scott Card
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.Herbert Spence
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
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.Menande
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
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
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
If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ? I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.Ramtha
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
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
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
Use soft words and hard arguments.English Prove
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
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.Florence Scovel Shinn
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.Robert Frost
