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Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805. · Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998 · Buddha, Last words before his death · Cecil John Rhodes (Founder of the Rhodes Scholarships), last words, 1902. · Che Guevara, His last words, spoken to his assassin. · Daniel Webster, last words, 24 October 1852. · E. R. Bulwer-Lytton, Last Words (1860) · George V, last words, 21 January 1936. · George Washington, last words, 14 December 1799. · Grover Cleveland, last words, 1908. · Henry Ward Beecher, last words · Horation Nelson, Admiral British Navy, dying words · John Adams, last words after a lifetime competing with Thomas Jefferson · John Barrymore, last words · John Brown, last words in a written note given to his jailer, Dec. 2, 1859 · John Quincy Adams, last words, 21 February 1848. · Last words of Emily Dickinson · Lord Byron, last words · Ludwig von Beethoven, last words · Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821 · Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776 · Pablo Picasso, last words · Robert E. Lee, last words, 12 October 1870. · Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919 · Thomas Jonathan [Stonewall] Jackson, last words, 10 May 1863. · Wilhelm I, last words, 8 March 1888. · William Wordsworth · William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us

. . . I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

– John Calvin

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

– Wendell Johnson

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Death is the word that kills all the words.

– Charles de LEUSSE

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Don't let people's words bring you down

– Daniela Dendal

From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)

– Dwight D Eisenhower

Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.

– Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul. And sings the tune Without the words, and never stops at all.

– Emily Dickinson

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

– Herbert Spencer

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

– Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)

– Dwight D Eisenhower

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

– Charles Dickens

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

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on.

– Robert Frost

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.

– Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari

It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction

– Abraham Lincoln

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

– Harold S. Geneen

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

– Aprocrypha

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

– Adrienne Rich

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

– Sir Winston Churchill

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

– Osho

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

– William Shakespeare

One picture is worth a thousand words.

– Fred R. Barnard

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