Words Quotes

Eric hoffe - one might equate growing up with a mistrust of...
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
Charles simic - poetry is an orphan of silence. the words never...
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
Carl sagan - it is of interest to note that while some...
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.
Marcel Marceau
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Bertha Flowers
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
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Ricthe
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
Homer, The Odyssey
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
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
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
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.
St. Francis of Assissi
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
Russian Prove
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates