Words Quotes

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Pythagoras

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Thomas Carlyle

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Samuel Butler

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Samuel Butler

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

George Walker Bush

Words are but empty thanks.

Colley Cibber

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjld

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

Sir John James Cowperthwaite

An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.

Sir John James Cowperthwaite

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

Vanna Bonta

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

George Chapman

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just. And how can we fight for liberty if we are not free in our own minds? How can we ask others to sacrifice if we are not ready to do so?... Only in true surrender to the interest of all can we reach that strength and independence, that unity of purpose, that equity of judgment which are necessary if we are to measure up to our duty to the future, as men of a generation to whom the chance was given to build in time a world of peace.

Dag Hammarskjld

Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.

Jeffrey Cohen

A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."

Billings Learned Hand

The kingdom, its states, and its families, may be perfectly ruled; dignities and emoluments may be declined; naked weapons may be trampled under the feet; but the course of the Mean cannot be attained to.

Confucius
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