Words Quotes

By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life.

Jean Baptiste Girard

Colours fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

Luke 6:45

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

Charles Capps

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,

Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces

That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Ingrid Bengis

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

George Herbert

I like good strong words that mean something.

Louisa May Alcott

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Lewis Mumford

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Elizabeth Bowen

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote

Words are the model, words are the tools, words are the boards, words are the nails.

Richard Rhodes

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

James Earl Jones

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Samuel Butler