Words Quotes

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

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - - Up to fifty words used in correct context - - No human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

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

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order - Poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Thales

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Prove

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

Mother Teresa

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.

Ian Gabirol

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us... not just pretty words, Fester.

Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie

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

When words leave off, music begins.

Thomas Carlyle

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

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

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Harold Ross

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.

Chinese Prove

Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

Unknown

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

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

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Jose Antonio Burciaga

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Ann Landers

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

Alexander Pope

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

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

Eddie Myers

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

William Arthur Ward

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech - One does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

George Eliot

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

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

I banish fear with two words: you lead.

Demetri Kolokotronis

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

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

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spence