Quotes on Words :: Finest Quotes

Words Quotes

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Marilyn

Some guy hit my car fender the other day, and I said unto him, \\\"Be fruitful and multiply.\\\" But not in those words.

Woody Allen

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

Alan Bennett

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

Sonny Bono

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Samuel Johnson

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

Samuel Daniel

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

Paul Auster

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

Vanna Bonta

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered.

Proverbs

Love and hate are such strong words, they also cause so much pain

Unknown

If I were dying, my last words would be, have faith and pursue the unknown end.

William Hazlitt

Poetry: the best words in the best order

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Hedrick Smith

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck

Buddha

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both

Ursula K. LeGuin

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The wounds of fire would have gone with the time but not the wounds caused by words

Tamil proverb

The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

Gamaliel Bradford

<< 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 14 15 16 >>