Words Quotes
96 quotations about Words
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.
Words are the money of fools.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
All words are part true and part false.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
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