Words Quotes
Poetry the best words in the best order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
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
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.Henry David Thoreau
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
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.Francis Quarles
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others.Johann Kaspar Lavate
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Rudyard Kipling
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
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
In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.Alexander Pope
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.Sir Winston Churchill
Speak what you think to - Day in words as hard as cannon - Balls and to - Morrow speak what to - Morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to - Day.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.Lenny Bruce
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
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.Mary McCarthy
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.Florence Shinn
Deeds, not words shall speak me.John Fletche
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.John Maynard Keynes
