Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.
Mitch Hedberg

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
Bob Dylan

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao Tzu

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
Mae West

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe