Words Quotes
96 quotations about Words
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Words of love, are works of love.
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
By words the mind is winged.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Words are all we have.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
Authors on Words
Abigail Adams
William R. Alger
Gracie Allen
Aristophanes
Burt Bacharach
Gaston Bachelard
Samuel Beckett
Henry Ward Beecher
Robert Burton
Orson Scott Card
Willa Cather
Malcolm De Chazal
Chinese Proverb
Winston Churchill
Confucius
Joseph Conrad
Calvin Coolidge
Emily Dickinson
Phyllis Diller
George Eliot