Word Quotes
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But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Words that weep, and tears that speak. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
My word fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been! (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
But words once spoke can never be recall'd. (Quote by - Wentworth Dillon)
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords. (Quote by - Bible)
He utters empty words, he utters sound without mind. (Quote by - Virgil)
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. (Quote by - Proverbs)
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Sticks and stones may break my bones, But words can never harm me. (Quote by - Old English Rhyme)
Words will build no walls. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. (Quote by - Joanna Baillie)
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. (Quote by - Charles H. Parkhurst)
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
A word spoken in good season, how good it is! (Quote by - Proverbs)
Words are feminine; deeds are masculine. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. (Quote by - Voltaire)
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
How forcible are right words! (Quote by - Bible)
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Eating words has never given me indigestion. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. (Quote by - John Locke)
I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Fair words butter no parsnips. (Quote by - John Clarke)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (Quote by - Bible)
Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? (Quote by - Bible)
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. (Quote by - Julian Sorrell Huxley)
