The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
Black Elk

Truth is in things, and not in words.
Herman Melville

The words of the songs speak for themselves.
Cat Stevens

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

Words are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.
Thomas Hobbes

Words are the small change of thought.
Jules Renard

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
Bill Watterson

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Joseph Conrad

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong