Quotes on Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words Quotes

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above.

Julia Fletcher Carney 1823

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above.

Julia Fletcher Carney 1823

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.

Henry Truman

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!

Eileen Elias Freeman

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

Denis Waitley

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.

Samuel Johnson

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

Be careful of the words you say, keep them soft and sweet; You never know from day to day which ones you'll have to eat.

Unknown

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Fr. Jerome Cummings

Actions lie louder than words.

Carolyn Wells

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words.

Eileen Caddy

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all a space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that has the most immediate impact upon us.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Noam Chomsky

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Charlotte Whitton

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

Danilo Dolci

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Martin Luther King, jr.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.

Alexander Dumas

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Marian Wright Edelman

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