Words Quotes
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
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
Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
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
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
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
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One picture is worth a thousand words.Fred R. Barnard
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
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
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
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.Learned Hand
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.John Greenleaf Whittie
Deeds, not words shall speak me.John Fletche
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.William Shakespeare
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
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.Sir Winston Churchill
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self - Reliance", 1841
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.William Cowpe
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
