When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Marcel Proust
I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
Richard Pryor
I can't put into words what I think about anything.
Lilly Pulitzer
How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia's good while trying to take his funds, his money... →
Vladimir Putin
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do... →
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative... →
Salvatore Quasimodo