Words Quotes
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
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.Orson Scott Card
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.William Shakespeare
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.Theocritus of Chios
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
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 Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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 answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.A. S. Neill
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
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.Julia A. Fletcher Carney
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.George Eliot
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.Martin Luthe
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
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.)
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
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
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
Deeds, not words shall speak me.John Fletche
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.Mother Teresa
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
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
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
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.William Shakespeare
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
