I am the master of my unspoken words, and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.
Four-word story of failure: Hired, tired, mired, fired.
A careless word may kindle strife.A cruel word may wreck a life.A timely word may level stress.A loving word may heal and bless.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . . Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]
Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.
When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already, To spot with sunshine the early green.
Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. (2:29).
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.