Words Quotes

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

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.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

H. R. Haldeman

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

Learned Hand

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Francis Quarles

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

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Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Learned Hand

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

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Thales

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

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

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

William Shakespeare

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

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

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

Aprocrypha

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

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Earl of Roscommon

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Florence Shinn

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao - Tzu

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spence

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

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

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

Anatole France

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Lenny Bruce

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

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