Thursday Thirteen!

Posted by Leslie on May 1st, 2008 | 4 Comments

{Edition XXVI}

I’m a wee bit late today - apologies! Another time to list some favorite quotes. These all have to do with “words.”

Thirteen Quotes on Words

1. “Words are the voice of the heart.”
Confucius

2. “Men of few words are the best men.”
William Shakespeare

3. “Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “Good words are worth much and cost little.”
George Herbert

5. “When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

6. “Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
William Shakespeare

7. “Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
Winston Churchill

8. “Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.”
William Henry

9. “Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker

10. “Be generous with kindly words,especially about those who are absent.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. “By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”
Winston Churchill

12. “Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.”
Blaise Pascal

13. “Words are healers of the sick tempered.”
Aeschylus

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