Words Quotes

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

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

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

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 alive; cut them and they bleed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson