Words Quotes
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.Sir Winston Churchill
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.Confucius
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift
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.
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.William Shakespeare
I banish fear with two words: you lead.Demetri Kolokotronis
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
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 only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
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
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
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
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.Herbert Spence
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.South
Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.Alexander Pope
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.Jewish Prove
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Isaiah
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.Manly P. Hall
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
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 von Goethe
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
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.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
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding
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
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.Martin Luthe
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
