Words Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

47 Words Quotes
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“Tears are words the heart can't express”
James Earl Jones Quotes
“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”
Ben Folds Quotes
“Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.”
Fr. Jerome Cummings Quotes
“No words are necessary between two loving hearts”
Mark Twain Quotes
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
William Shakespeare Quotes
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
“That blessed word Mesopotamia.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: see Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable"
“He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: Egyptian Book of the Dead
“The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: The Husia of Ancient Egypt, translation by Maulana Kaurenga
“Words, as a Tartar's bow, do not shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Advancement of Learning
“Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.”
Joanna Baillie Quotes
Source: Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday (l. 126)
“One picture is worth ten thousand words.”
Frederick R. Barnard Quotes
Source: Printer's Ink
“'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: The Spanish Curate (act II, sc. 5, Song)
“But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 25)
“Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. V, v. 2)
“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ephesians (ch. V, v. 6)
“Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.”
Bible Quotes
Source: II Timothy (ch. I, v. 13)
“How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?”
Bible Quotes
Source: Job (ch. VI, v. 25)
“Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?”
Bible Quotes
Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 2)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Bible Quotes
Source: John (ch. I, v. 1)
“A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 23)
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 11)
“The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Psalms (ch. LV, v. 21)
“You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.”
Gen. John Burgoyne Quotes
Source: The Heiress (act III, sc. 2)
“A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Letter