Words Quotes
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
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.Andrew Alden
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
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
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.)
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
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
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, Antigone
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
Use soft words and hard arguments.English Prove
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.Mother Theresa
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...CIA Manual
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicolas Boileau
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh
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
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, letter to John Adams, 1774
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.Unknown
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
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
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.Julia A. Fletcher Carney
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
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
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.Ian Gabirol
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.Jason Mraz
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.Bertha Flowers
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
