Words Quotes

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.

Neil Postman

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.

Patrick Overton

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

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

Author Unknown

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.

William Carlos Williams

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittie

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Father Jerome Cummings

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.

Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)

Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

Author Unknown

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

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 outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

Home

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Robert Fulghum

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato the Elde

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer, The Iliad

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

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy