Words Quotes
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.Samuel Johnson
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
When words fail, music speaks.Hans Christian Anderson
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Breme
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.William Shakespeare
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.Field Marshall John French
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
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
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.Florence Scovel Shinn
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicholas Boileau
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.Henry David Thoreau
Poetry the best words in the best order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.Lech Walesa
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.Wendell Johnson
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
Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.Anonymous
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.Chinese Prove
Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.John Calvin
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.George Eliot
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.George Du Maurie
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
