A blow with a
word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. - Robert Burton
A broken bone can heal, but the
wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jessamyn West
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. - Unknown
A single word can scar another. - Unknown
A thousand words will not leave so
deep an impression as one deed. - Henrik Ibsen
A word from the wise is like a
sign post telling us where to go when we are lost. - Unknown
A word is not a crystal,
transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary
greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and the time in
which it is used. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
A word of encouragement is as
refreshing as a cold drink on a hot summer day. - Unknown
A word once let
out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. - Horatius
A word or a simple expression may
be a key to the door, an opening to a new understanding. - Everett E. Bishop
A
word to the wise is sufficient. - Terence
All too often we say the cruel and
destructive things, because it is so much easier to be clever than to be kind.
But in the long run, proud and abusive words are the ones that cause trouble
for us. - Unknown
Although words
exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which
produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the
transmission of ideas is lost in the background. - Albert Einstein
Among my most prized possessions
are words that I have never spoken. - Orson Rega Card
An honest, kind word spoken in
love lifts the spirit and refreshes the soul. A kind word not spoken leaves an
empty hole. - Unknown
Be
careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not
forgotten. - Unknown
Better break your word than do
worse in keeping it. - Thomas Fuller
Better than a thousand hollow
words, is one word that brings peace. - The Buddha
By words the mind is winged. - Aristophanes
Cold words freeze people, hot
words scorch them, bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them
wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men’s souls; they soothe,
quiet, and comfort the hearer. - Unknown
Consider carefully before you say
a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. - George
Horace Lorimer
Don’t waste words on people who
deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing
at all. - Mandy Hale
For of all sad words of tongue or
pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!” - John Greenleaf Whittier
For one word a man is
often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We
should be careful indeed what we say. - Confucius
Four swiftest horses cannot overtake the word
once spoken. - Chinese Proverb
Good words are worth much, and cost little. - George Herbert
Good words cool more than cold
water. - John Ray
If words are to enter men’s minds
and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men’s
defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. - J. B.
Phillips
If you wish to know the mind of a
man, listen to his words. - Chinese
Proverb
It doesn’t pay to say too much
when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the
word that is never spoke. Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown
away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say. - Jules
Renard
It is easier to
swallow angry words than to have to eat them. - Unknown
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all
that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. - Lawrence
G. Lovasik
Keep your words soft
and tender, because tomorrow, you may have to eat them. - Unknown
Kind words are the music of the world. - Unknown
Kind
words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
Like a beautiful
flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no
fruit in one who does not put them into practice. - The Buddha
Look out how you talk about others
for these words, empty and arrogant, hit back at you even harder than they may
hit them. - Unknown
Many a true word is spoken in
jest. - English Proverb
No
man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are
slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry
Adams
Oaths
are but words, and words are but wind. - Samuel Butler
One kind word can warm
three winter months. - Unknown
One man’s word
is no man’s word; we should quietly hear both sides. - Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
Pay attention to the words spoken.
Sometimes, people accidentally say what they mean. - Unknown
Pretty words are not always true.
True words are not always pretty. - Unknown
Provoking, isn't it? that when one
is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. - Charlotte L. Forten
Grimke
Some words are like rays of
sunshine, others like barbed arrows or the bite of a serpent. And if hard words
cut so deep, how much pleasure can kind ones give? - Sir John Lubbock
Someone of words
and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. - Unknown
Spiteful words
can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. - Unknown
Sticks and stones will break our
bones, but words will break our hearts. - Robert Fulghum
Thanks to words,
we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often
sunk to the level of the demons. - Aldous Huxley
The best way to get the last word
is to apologise. -
Unknown
The more you say, the less people
remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. - Fnelon
The oldest, shortest words – “yes”
and “no” – are those which require the most thought. - Pythagoras
The power of
words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army,
to change defeat into victory and to save an empire. - Emile De
Girardin
The
sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath. - Gautama
Buddha.
The unspoken word never does harm.
- Louis Kossuth
The words that enlighten the soul
are more precious than jewels. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
The words you speak become the
house you live in. - Hafiz
There is always time to add a
word, never to withdraw one. - Baltasar Gracian
To utter
pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without
fragrance. - The Buddha
Truthful words are
not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive;
persuasive words are not good. - Lao Tzu
We have too many high
sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. - Abigail
Adams
Whatever words we utter should be
chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good
or ill. - The Buddha
When words are both true and kind,
they can change our world. - Buddha
When you have spoken the word, it
reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. - Arabian Proverb
Where can I find a
man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him? - Chuang Tzu
Wise sayings often fall on barren
ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. - Arthur Helps
Without knowing the
force of words, it is impossible to know men. - Confucius
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary,
how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to
combine them. - Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Words are but pictures of our
thoughts. - John Dryden
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights;
you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
- Jodi Picoult
Words are not as satisfactory as
we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with
them and must make the best and not the worst of them. - Samuel Butler
Words are one of our chief means
of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have of our
words, the more successful our adjustment will be. - Unknown
Words are
sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you
can nudge the world a little. - Unknown
Words are free. It’s how you use
them, that may cost you. - Unknown
Words are seductive and dangerous
material to be used with caution. - Unknown
Words can sometimes, in moments of
grace, attain the quality of deeds. - Elie Wiesel
Words
differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged
have a different effect. - Blaise Pascal
Words have the power to both
destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
- The Buddha
Words have the power to build, to
store and create, as well as tear down and destroy. We think with words, we
organize our world with words, we communicate with words, we inform with words,
we build relationships with words. - Leo Buscaglia
Words of comfort, skilfully
administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. - Louis Nizer
Words provide
food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. - Jim
Rohn
Words, like glass, obscure when
they do not aid vision. - Joseph Joubert
Words that soak into
your ears are whispered, not yelled. - Unknown