Quotes
Quotes about Word
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
One kind word can warm three winter months.
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned Englishâup to fifty words used in correct contextâno human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heavenâThat word is liberty.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose, - words in their best order; poetry, - the best words in their best order.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
Swords and guns have no eyes.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." -John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"
