Quotes on Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words Quotes

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain

They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken.

Raymond Floyd

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Lydia M. Child

Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.

Blaise Pascal

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Henry David Thoreau

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight David Eisenhower

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.

Adlai Stevenson

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Dr Samuel Johnson

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

Josh Billings

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

William Henry

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Winston Churchill

Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of style.

Jonathan Swift

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Thomas Huxley

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together

Josh Billings

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Victor Hugo

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy

George Santayana

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

Joseph Conrad

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

James Earl Jones

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts

Voltaire

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