Words Quotes

Lewis mumford - i would die happy if i knew that on my tombstone...
Emily dickenson - hope is the thing with feathers that perches in...
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you, If you do not act upon them?
Buddha (563 - 483 B. C.)
Sir winston churchill - macdonald has the gift of compressing the largest...
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis Mcginley
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
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.
St. Francis of Assissi
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
Father Jerome Cummings
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley, unknown
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.
Anonymous
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Stewart Paton
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Theresa
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.
Epictetus
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
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Bertha Flowers
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.
Simon MacDonald
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
Hope is the thing with feathers - - That perches in the soul - - And sings the tune without words - - And never stops, at all.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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 fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luthe
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao - Tzu
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
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
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
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
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