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BuddhaWhatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   good  speech  words  

Robin HobbNot being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

 - Robin Hobb

Tags:   reply  words  

Robert FrostHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

 - Robert Frost

Tags:   stories  words  

BuddhaHowever many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

 - Gautama Buddha

Tags:   action  words  

Elbert HubbardHe who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

 - Elbert Hubbard

Tags:   silence  understanding  words  

Lao TzuWatch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

 - Laozi / Lao-Tzu

Tags:   actions  destiny  habits  thought  words  

Blaise PascalKind words produce their own image in men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

 - Blaise Pascal

Tags:   feelings  kindness  words  

Victor HugoMusic expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

 - Victor Hugo

Tags:   expression  music  words  

Philip HamertonIf animals could speak as fabulists have feigned, the dog would be a blunt, blundering, outspoken, honest fellow, but the cat would have the rare talent of never saying a word too much.

 - Philip Hamerton

Tags:   cats  dogs  speech  words  

William StrunkVigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

 - William Strunk

Tags:   words  writing