Words Quotes

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Marcel Marceau

A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.

Good words are worth much and cost little.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Words are the voice of the heart.

When words are many, sin is not absent, but he who holds his tongue is wise

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life
Frederika Bremer

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Where words fail, music speaks.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick

Use soft words and hard arguments.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Poetry is the deification of reality.
Dame Edith Sitwell

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence
Paul Simon







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