Words Quotes

Henry fielding - a newspaper consists of just the same number of...
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
William shakespeare - speak to me as to thy thinkings, as thou dost...
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Robert Fulghum
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.
Richard Milhous Nixon
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.
Abraham Lincoln
Deeds, not words shall speak to me.
John William Fletche
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
Orson scott card - among my most prized possessions are the words...
But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
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
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffe
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce
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.
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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
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
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.
Ian Gabirol
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
There are tones of voices that mean more than words.
Robert Frost
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
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
Unknown
Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Prove
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
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
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch