Words Quotes
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
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
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.Wendell Johnson
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
A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.Thales
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.John M. Keynes
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.Sidney Madwed
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
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
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
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.Joyce Carol Oates
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
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.Emily Dickenson
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.Lech Walesa
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.Joan Baez
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.Aprocrypha
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.Mary McCarthy
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.Homer, The Iliad
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.Theocritus of Chios
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
And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Isaiah
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.William Shakespeare
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.Unknown
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.Henry Ward Beeche
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.Bertha Flowers
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
