Quotes About Words

“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.”
James Earl Jones
“No words are necessary between two loving hearts.”
Unknown
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”
William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader. 1929-1968)
“I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.”
Mae West (American Actress and sex symbol, 1892-1980)
“Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action.”
Unknown
“Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.”
Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
“Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.”
George Bernard Shaw (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
“If every word I said could make you laugh, I’d talk forever…”
Unknown
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
Voltaire (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
“These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.”
Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
“Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.”
Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
“Words are the voice of the heart.”
Confucius (China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
Maya Angelou (American Poet, b.1928)
“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”
Winston Churchill (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
Buddha
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
Buddha
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
Buddha
“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
Mother Teresa
“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”
Kahlil Gibran
“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.”
Winston Churchill
“Good words are worth much and cost little.”
George Herbert
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe