Words Quotes
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.Penelope Fitzgerald
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.A. S. Neill
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.Henry David Thoreau
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.Sidney Madwed
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.John William Fletche
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003
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
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.William Shakespeare
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.Saint Francis of Assisi
If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.Sir Winston Churchill
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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
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
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
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
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.William Shakespeare
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.Homer, The Iliad
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.Hermann Weyl
The body says what words cannot.Martha Graham
