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QUOTES including the word: "words"

Gauguin:
  • Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

    • Paul Verlaine:
  • A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

    • Kornaros:
  • Of all the gracious things upon this earth, It is fair words that have the greatest worth,

    • Jacqueline Romilly:
  • Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.

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

    • Cavafy:
  • Of course many people will have much to say. We should listen. But we won't be deceived by words such as Indispensable, Unique, and Great.

    • Maupassant:
  • Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

    • Ibsen:
  • A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

    • Delacroix:
  • Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

    • Proudhon:
  • When deeds speak, words are nothing.

    • Ahmad Javad:
  • About these ruins that I see?!
    Do the words that I write
    Hurt your tender heart?

    • Alexandre Dumas:
  • All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

    • Goh-Poh Seng:
  • Words, words to weave, Into prose, into verse, Varied as life,

    • Ella Fitzgerald:
  • Forgive me if I don’t have the words. Maybe I can sing it and you’ll understand.

    • Edith Piaf:
  • I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

    • Nikolai Gogol:
  • “However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

    • Sophocles:
  • It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

    • Pascal:
  • Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

    • Sartre:
  • Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

    • Buddha:
  • However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

    • L. Martin King,:
  • In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

    • Horace:
  • A picture is a poem without words.

    • Wilhelm Reich:
  • You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man

    • Hermann Hesse:
  • Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

    • Elytis:
  • “If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros.”

    • Saadawi:
  • I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

    • Boris Pasternak:
  • Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

    • Pythagoras:
  • Either be silent or say things of more value than silence. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

    • Hawthorne:
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

    • Dorothy Parker:
  • “There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

    • Pythagoras:
  • Silence is better than unmeaning words.

    • Valery Paul:
  • The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

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

    • Alfred Adler:
  • “Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

    • A. Edgar Poe,:
  • Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

    • Beckett:
  • ll I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

    • Borges:
  • “I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.”

    • Galeano:
  • Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

    • Pythagoras:
  • The shortest words 'yes' and 'no' are those which require the most thought.

    • de Simone Beauvoir:
  • 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.

    • Bataille:
  • It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

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

    • Edith Piaf:
  • To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

    • Antonio Machado:
  • The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.

    • Amos Oz:
  • The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.

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

    • Kunanbaev:
  • The man who memorizes the words of the wise becomes wise.

    • Aeschylus:
  • Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

    • Thales:
  • Too Many words are not a proof of Wisdom.

    • Sophocles:
  • Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

    • Homer:
  • There is time for many words, and there is also time for sleep.

    • Goethe:
  • Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

    • Heinrich Heine:
  • When words leave off, music begins.

    • Spinoza:
  • Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

    • Jane Austen:
  • Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

    • Victor Hugo:
  • Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

    • George Orwell:
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

    • Michelangelo:
  • With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

    • Karl Marx:
  • “Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”(his last words)

    • Sigmund Freud:
  • Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.

    • Laozi:
  • Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

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