Words Quotes

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de Montaigne

Love, Learning, Sports

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes

Religion, Real, Understand

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

Good, Truth, Today

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin

Less, Consider, Defect

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

Women, Men, Business

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

Remember, Living, Strange

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Genius, Ideas

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.
Nizar Qabbani

Love, Beyond, Decided

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

Same, Old, Last

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

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.
Lee Iacocca

Business, End, Three

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift

Learning, Nothing, Wind

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. Forster

Earth, House, Mansions

Good words will not give me back my children.
Chief Joseph

Good, Children, Give

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

Knowledge, Wisdom, Jesus

Good words are worth much, and cost little.
George Herbert

Good, Worth, Cost

The words of truth are simple.
Aeschylus

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
Henry Miller

Human, After, Potential

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois

Simple, Four, Constant

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Tired, Mean, Between

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
Mason Cooley

Love, Worry, Meaning

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
Virginia Woolf

Best, War, Help

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.
Alice Walker

Women, Black, Word

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh Billings

Great, Power, Together

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Art, Heart, May

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles

Wisdom, Often, Goes

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates

Nothing, Language, Virtue

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke

Great, Themselves, Ideas

You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle

Good, Nothing, Cannot

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