Words Quotes

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true. (Laozi)
Watch your thoughts, they become words. View quote
Laozi
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. View quote
Homer
A picture is a poem without words. View quote
Horace
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. View quote
Confucius
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. View quote
Socrates
It's deeds we need, not words. View quote
Vasil Levski
In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life it goes on. View quote
Robert Frost
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. (Pythagoras)
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. View quote
George Orwell
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. View quote
Ingrid Bergman
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. View quote
Joan Miró
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. View quote
Alexander Pope
Value your words. Each one may be the last. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. View quote
Lin Yutang
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. (Alexandre Dumas)
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. View quote
Winston Churchill
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. View quote
Abigail Adams