Words Quotes

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Plutarch

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

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Theocritus of Chios

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3

The body says what words cannot.

Martha Graham

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

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Henry Fielding

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

Emily Dickinson

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

John Calvin

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

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

Alexander Pope

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.

William Shakespeare

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Jose Antonio Burciaga

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Polish Prove

James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Nicolas Boileau

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Do not be wise in words - Be wise in deeds.

Jewish Prove

But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step - Dame Studys blows... Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beeche

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

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

Mother Theresa

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

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

William Shakespeare

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.

Alfred North Whitehead

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau