Words Quotes
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
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".
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.Unknown
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.William Shakespeare
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, 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 possible, speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.Robert Frost
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.Napoleon
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.Ruth Hubbard
One picture is worth a thousand words.Fred R. Barnard
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
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
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.Orson Scott Card
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.Wendell Johnson
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.Russian Prove
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
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.Margaret Hilda Thatche
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.Manly P. Hall
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, Unknown
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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will followCato the Censor (?)
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 consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.John Calvin
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
Words must be weighed, not counted.Polish Prove
