Words Quotes

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Alexander Pope

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Thomas Jefferson

Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

William Shakespeare

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Theocritus of Chios

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spence

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Hermann Weyl

Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will follow

Cato the Censor (?)

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

Nicholas Boileau

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

South

Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.

St. Francis of Assissi

Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao - Tzu

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Sidney Madwed

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Robert Frost

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

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

Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittie

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Field Marshall John French

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoove

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

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

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

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

William Shakespeare

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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