Words Quotes

Understanding is the heartwood of well-spoken words.

Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise and virtuous.

Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.

All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasing to all, for there is no lack of sweet words.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words.

Words spoken cannot be recalled so think twice before you speak.