Words Quotes

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Fool, Care, Jealous

So the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot

Struggle, Lover

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson

Thoughts, Wine, Makes

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Another, Act, Quotation

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Nature, Soul, Within

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens

Good, Lips, Potatoes

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Love, Smile, Mother

Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus

Philosophy, Two, Lies

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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Try, Soon, Express

Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison

Philosophy, Big, Sense

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
John Barrymore

Beautiful, Wife

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
Hillary Clinton

History, Government, Today

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise Pascal

Different, Meaning, Effects

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams

True, Nor, Photograph

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Philip K. Dick

Reality, Control, Meaning

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life, Wisdom, Mind

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

Faith, Religion, Nature

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Music, Trying, Bother

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

Accomplish, Cost

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph

Truth, Speak, Require

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Saint Augustine

Through, Here, Concepts

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Albert Schweitzer

Work, Giving, Talk

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson

Poor, Spirit, Knew

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir

Sex, Woman, Broken

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

Great, Art, Book

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck

Faith, Work, Science

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank

Heart, Hard, Thought

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science, Long, Rich

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