Words Quotes
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
Value your words. Each one may be the last.Stanislaw Lec
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicholas Boileau
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
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.Tom Robbins
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.Home
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.Leo Tolstoy
Rem tene, verba sequntur Keep to the subject, and the words will followCato the Censor (?)
When words leave off, music begins.Thomas Carlyle
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.Joan Walsh Anglund
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.Mother Teresa
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, Unknown
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.Henry David Thoreau
Poetry the best words in the best order.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicolas Boileau
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.Edward Thorndike
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.John Calvin
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.Ricthe
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
A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.Russian Prove
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been!John Greenleaf Whittie
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.Edward R. Murrow
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.Lewis Mumford
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.Ugo Betti
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.Confucius
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.Patrick Overton
