Quotes
Quotes about Word
Deeds, not words.
For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words.
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.
His deeds do not agree with his words. [Lat., Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant.]
Deeds are males, words females are.
Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it, I do believe and take it.
'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it. - Elizabeth I,
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and be just.
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn-- Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Gluttony kills more then the sword. [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]
