Words Quotes
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
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.George Eliot
Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.Alexander Pope
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.Lenny Bruce
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.Orson Scott Card
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
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
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.Sir Philip Sidney
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.Florence Shinn
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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.Hermann Weyl
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?Eknath Easwaran
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Use soft words and hard arguments.English Prove
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.George Gordon Byron
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.Alfred Tennyson
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicolas Boileau
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.Herbert Spence
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.Aprocrypha
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
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 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
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.George Eliot
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
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.George Eliot
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.Learned Hand
