Words Quotes

Abraham lincoln - it is said an eastern monarch once charged his...
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
Wilfred funk - the more words you know, the more clearly and...
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope
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
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.
Winnie the Pooh
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
Dorothy Parke
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
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
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
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
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.
St. Francis of Assissi
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.
Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.
Johann Kaspar Lavate
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
Cato the Elde
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
Anonymous
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
Unknown
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
Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.
Marcel Marceau
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch