Words Quotes

Oprah winfrey, o magazine - become the change you want to see - those are...
Sidney madwed - words can be like baseball bats when used...
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
Logan pearsall smith - there is one thing that matters - - to set a...
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spence
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Robert Frost
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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
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
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
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 Wolfgang von Goethe
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
Home
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
Unknown
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.
Ian Gabirol
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, Antigone
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elde
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly P. Hall
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.
Penelope Fitzgerald
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
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
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
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
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
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau
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
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
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
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