Words Quotes

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

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Charles Simic

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise.

William Carlos Williams

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.

Edmund Burke

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

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

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952

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

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Fred R. Barnard

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - - Up to fifty words used in correct context - - No human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.

Ian Gabirol

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Robert Fulghum

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

Henry David Thoreau

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo".

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

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

John Fletche

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

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 Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.

Simon MacDonald

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes