words quotes

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

— Martin Luther King

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

— Winston Churchill

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”

— Johnny Cash

“Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”

— William Shakespeare

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“You can stroke people with words.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

— Douglas MacArthur

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

— Rudyard Kipling

“Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Words are all we have.”

— Samuel Beckett

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.”

— Mitch Hedberg

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”

— Chief Joseph

“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”

— Martin Luther

“Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.”

— Robert William Service

“My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.”

— Alfred Tennyson

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.”

— Cameron Diaz

“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.”

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

— William Shakespeare