Words Quotes

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway

Lost, Using, Edge

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Charlie Chaplin

Biggest, Cheap, Elephant

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers

Life, Yourself, Trouble

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

Beauty, Poetry, Creation

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

Poetry, Few, Says

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Generous, Absent, Kindly

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
Voltaire

Great, Thoughts, Hide

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

Truth, Universe, Few

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tell, Knows, Takes

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

Great, Successful, Adversity

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore

Great, Truth, Silence

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus

Wine, Sweet, Celebrate

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Phillips Brooks

Power, Silence, Another

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Feeling, Whole, Somebody

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Friendship, Truth

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

Last, Joke, Taking

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Important, Self, Done

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

Great, Society, Party

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Gratitude, May, Beginning

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mind, Wish, Listen

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt

Food, Everything, Wine

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

Lie, Desire, Deceive

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

Feelings, Themselves, Results

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.
Temple Grandin

Remember, Talk, Wanted

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen

Leadership, Attitude, Actions

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo

Strong, Bitter, Weak

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot

Struggle, Strange, Struggling

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ideas, Fail, Handy

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
Paul Wellstone

Life, Live, Speak

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