Words Quotes
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.Learned Hand
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.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Words must be weighed, not counted.Polish Prove
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
Words have a longer life than deeds.Pindar, Nemean Odes
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.St. Francis of Assissi
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.John Dewey
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.H. R. Haldeman
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
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
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
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
