Words Quotes

Edward thorndike - colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but...
Samuel johnson - language is only the instrument of science, and...
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Charles simic - poetry is an orphan of silence. the words never...
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.
Lewis Mumford
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
Sir Philip Sidney
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?
Eknath Easwaran
We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.
Serge Kahili King
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
Hedrick Smith
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.
Chinese Prove
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Emily Dickenson
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
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
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
William Arthur Ward
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
Anonymous
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
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
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
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
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
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian Prove
Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
John Fletche
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
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
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
Jonathan Swift
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman