Words Quotes
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.William Arthur Ward
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.William Shakespeare
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.Anonymous
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
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.Lenny Bruce
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
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.Edmund Burke
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.Menande
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.Napoleon
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
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.Winnie the Pooh
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.Jose Antonio Burciaga
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.Ambrose Bierce
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
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
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.Hermann Hesse
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
The body says what words cannot.Martha Graham
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.Emily Dickenson
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.Ingrid Bergman
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.Child Age 15
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
