Words Quotes

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
Herman melville - a man thinks that by mouthing hard words he...
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.
Theocritus of Chios
Alexandre dumas, translation from
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
Author Unknown
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Hermann Weyl
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
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
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
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
Jose Antonio Burciaga
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - - Up to fifty words used in correct context - - No human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Carl Sagan
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
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elde
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.
Ian Gabirol
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Poetry the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Robert Frost
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parke
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
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
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Lech Walesa
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicolas Boileau
One picture is worth a thousand words.
Fred R. Barnard
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
Unknown
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittie