Words Quotes

Mary mccarthy - we all live in suspense from day to day in other...
Adrienne rich - lying is done with words and also with silence....
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beeche
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
Anatole France
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
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
Thales
William carleton - careful with fire is good advice we know. careful...
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
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
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Sir Winston Churchill
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
Jason Mraz
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Andrew Alden
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Father Jerome Cummings
Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.
Jewish Prove
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.
William Cowpe
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
Lech Walesa
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Ricthe
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurie
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman
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
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
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