Words Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Ingrid Bergman

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.

T. S. Eliot

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.

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

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Phyllis Mcginley

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Dennis Roch

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

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

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.

St. Francis of Assissi

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?

Buddha (563 - 483 B. C.)

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Henry Fielding

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luthe

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order - Poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Polish Prove

I banish fear with two words: you lead.

Demetri Kolokotronis

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

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

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.

Marcel Marceau