False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
SocratesWords are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William ShakespeareWithout words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Herman HesseAction speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often.
Mark TwainPrayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma GandhiThe word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungI cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Paulo CoelhoLet us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.
Mother TeresaFor thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil GibranWhat a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head and is known to none but himself.
Mark TwainWords do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Herman HesseWords may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinUnder certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark TwainBy swallowing evil words unsaid no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston ChurchillHave constructive thoughts, consoling words, compassionate acts.
Sai BabaHope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor HugoWords, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William ShakespeareA torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWords mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
Maya AngelouAs we must account for every idle word so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin FranklinA 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 SwiftBoy those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve MartinWithout continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success, have no meaning.
Benjamin FranklinThe first thing which I can record concerning myself is that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Groucho MarxHalf my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words and, I hope, thoughts.
Winston ChurchillConversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre MauroisBe generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
Winston ChurchillA fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.
Woody AllenHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily DickinsonAlways give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger if in a lonely place.
TecumsehThe tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
BuddhaWe sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fyodor DostoevskyWhen words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William ShakespeareWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
Alan WattsWords and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
Dr. SeussWhatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them, for good or ill.
BuddhaKind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother TeresaThe finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George EliotIn prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma GandhiNever part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean PaulI am thankful of course, for the prize, and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
Tennessee WilliamsWhen written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. KennedyWords without thoughts never to heaven go.
William ShakespeareDon't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
Dave BarryThe ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.
Francis BaconTalking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well, and yet words are not deeds.
William ShakespeareThe educated Southerner has no use for an 'R' except at the beginning of a word.
Mark TwainThe superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.
ConfuciusIn 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'When I use a word', Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'
Lewis CarrollAs soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William ShakespeareIf there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
E. M. ForsterWhat Wickham had said of the living was fresh in her memory and as she recalled his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross duplicity on one side or the other.
Jane AustenI don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark TwainHe who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
ConfuciusWords which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa