Words Quotes

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

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Homer, The Iliad

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

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

Homer, The Odyssey

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

Eknath Easwaran

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

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

Ambrose Bierce

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Thales

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will follow

Cato the Censor (?)

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Wendell Johnson

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

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

Aprocrypha

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

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

Saint Francis of Assisi

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Martin Luthe

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Father Jerome Cummings

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

Dennis Roch

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!

John Greenleaf Whittie

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

Phyllis Mcginley

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

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

Ian Gabirol

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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, Antigone

The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

Unknown

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Sidney Madwed