Words Quotes

There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Robert Frost

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Breme

We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ? I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.? If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.

Ramtha

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Robert Fulghum

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

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley, unknown

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Stanislaw Lec

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

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

Nicholas Boileau

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774

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

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

H. R. Haldeman

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

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

Jason Mraz

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

When words leave off, music begins.

Thomas Carlyle

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.)

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Jean Paul Richte

Poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?

Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun - Times, November 5, 2001

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Ruth Hubbard

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

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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spence

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson