Word Quotes

"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
-Mark Twain

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
-Mark Twain

"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
-Mark Twain

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
-Buddha

"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
-Carl Jung

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"With each word, your tenderness grows, tearing my fears apart. And that laugh, that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart. Your lovely, with your smile so warm and your cheek so soft, there is nothing for me but to love you."
-Frank Sinatra

"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
-Oscar Wilde

"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!"
-Oscar Wilde

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
-Sophocles

"A kind word never broke anyone's mouth. "
-Irish Proverb

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."
-Tommy Lasorda

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings."
-Sir George Savile

"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
-William Shakespeare

"A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably."
-Horace Mann

"I will not add another word."
-Horace Mann

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
-Horace Mann

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
-Mahatma Gandhi

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
-Bill Cosby

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
-Pythagoras