Words Quotes
Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.Shneur Zalman
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.Andrew Alden
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Baldwin
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.Moralia
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
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
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
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
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.John Calvin
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.John Christian Bovee
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
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
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.Hedrick Smith
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, Antigone
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.Henry David Thoreau
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.James Arthur Baldwin
Value your words. Each one may be the last.Stanislaw Lec
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.Learned Hand
Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.Sir Winston Churchill
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
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.Lech Walesa
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.Theocritus of Chios
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
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
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
