Best Words Quotes

...the fog is rising. (Emily Dickinson's last words)

Actions lie louder than words. (Carolyn Wells)

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. (Wendell Johnson)

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth. (George Crane)

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. (Ingrid Bengis)

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. (Karl Marx to his housekeeper)

Good words cost no more than bad. (Thomas Fuller)

Gratitude takes three forms:
A feeling in the heart,
an expression in words,
and a giving in return. (Anonymous)

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. (Herbert Spencer)

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me. (Anonymous)

Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth -- in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words -- in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. This requires an int (Stephen R. Covey)

It is never wholly possible for me to mean what I say or say what I mean, because the fact of my using signs [words] at all always leaves my meaning dispersed, divided, and never quite at one with itself. (Terry Eagleton)

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but there echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love. (Lao-Tse)

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. (Henry B. Adams)

The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincon's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words. (The Atlanta Journal)

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. (Felelon)

The paper burns, but the words fly away. (Ben Joseph Akiba)

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. (H. R. Haldeman, testifying in his own defense)

When you have nothing to say, say nothing. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. (Samuel Palmer)

Words and hearts should be handled with care for words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair. (Anonymous)

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Rudyard Kipling)

Words divide us, actions unite us. (Slogan of the Tupamaros)

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear. (Joseph Joubert)

You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. (Judge Hall)

Spread a little sunshine. (Jack Lemmon's father's last words)