Words Quotes

Henry wadsworth longfellow - a torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words...
Aldous huxley, unknown - words form the thread on which we string our...
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
Frederika breme - there are words which sever hearts more than...
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
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
John Dewey
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.
St. Francis of Assissi
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis Mcginley
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
Jason Mraz
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
Ugo Betti
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 sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, The Odyssey
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw Lec
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John M. Keynes
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Baldwin
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.
John William Fletche
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson
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
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
Abba Eban
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!
John Greenleaf Whittie
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Tennyson