Quotes
Quotes about Word
The pure, the beautiful, the bright,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulse to a wordless prayer,
The dreams of love and truth,
The longings after something lost,
The spirit's yearning cry,
The strivings after better hopes,--
These things can never die.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.
To-day, whatever may annoy,
The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy.
The last link is broken
That bound me to thee,
And the words thou hast spoken
Have render'd me free.
On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
God's mouth knows not to utter falsehood, but he will perform each word.
Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron."
When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."
Antiphanes said merrily, that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words; but opportunity will prevail.
It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.
Among what he called his precepts were such as these: Do not stir the fire with a sword. Do not sit down on a bushel. Do not devour thy heart.
The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
The belly has no ears, nor is it to be filled with fair words.
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.
