Words Quotes

96 quotations about Words
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed · Words
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Dorothy Parker · Words
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Charles H. Parkhurst · Words
On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.
Wendell Phillips · Words
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
Platen · Words
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch · Words
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Chinese Proverb · Words
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Spanish Proverb · Words
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Yiddish Proverb · Words
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle · Words
A single word often betrays a great design.
Jean Racine · Words
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
Thomas Reid · Words
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Jules Renard · Words
Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard · Words
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon · Words
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
Jean Jacques Rousseau · Words
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
George Santayana · Words
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre · Words
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer · Words
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare · Words
It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey · Words
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer · Words
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Joseph Stalin · Words
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson · Words
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Henry David Thoreau · Words

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