Words Quotes

When words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Anderson

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

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh

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

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

A. S. Neill

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

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Alexander Pope

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gel

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

Simon MacDonald

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Abigail Adams

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Fran Lebowitz

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.

Learned Hand

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

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

William Shakespeare

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Mother Theresa

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

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

Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.

Antonio Salieri, title of an opera

Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.

Napoleon

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.

William Shakespeare

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spence