Words Quotes

George eliot - friendship is the inexpressible comfort of...
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
Abba Eban
Ingrid bengis - for me, words are a form of action, capable of...
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John M. Keynes
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
When words leave off, music begins.
Thomas Carlyle
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.
Ian Gabirol
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Prove
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
Poetry the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
Demetri Kolokotronis
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
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
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
Unknown
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
William Shakespeare
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
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
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation - Rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson