Words & Language Quotes

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder — the oldest lesson of words.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are the voice of the heart.

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear.

There's something like a thread of gold running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter.

Be silent, if you choose; but when necessary, speak — and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Words can inspire, and words can destroy. Choose yours well.

A kind word is like a spring day.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.

The power of prayer is not in the words we say, but in the faith we bring to them.

The wound of words is greater than the wound of swords.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Kind words are like honey — sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.

Trust is earned when actions meet words.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Every time I say I love you, I'm really trying to say so much more than those three little words.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

A man's word is worth a thousand pieces of gold.

On Valentine's Day, say the words you carry all year but rarely speak.