Words Quotes

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

Morticia Addams - From the Addams Family movie

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

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

Mother Teresa

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

Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

John Christian Bovee

One picture is worth a thousand words.

Fred R. Barnard

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

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

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain