Words Quotes
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.Homer, The Odyssey
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicholas Boileau
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.Chinese Prove
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.Neil Postman
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Actions lie louder than words.Carolyn Wells
Words divide us, actions unite us.Slogan of the Tupamaros
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.Patrick Overton
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.Herman Melville
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.Carol Burnett
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
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
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.Jason Mraz
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.Ambrose Bierce
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.Sir Winston Churchill
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.Saint Francis of Assisi
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.Cato the Elde
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.Mark Twain
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
Words must be weighed, not counted.Polish Prove
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.Russian Prove