Best Fine Words Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.”

“Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.”

Different Water One Thing Fine Deeds Dry Mask Iron Sincere Diplomats Shady Fine Words

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

Literature Food Fine Soup Fine Words

Author:Moliere

“Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.”

Nations Goal United Results Fine Development Deeds United Nations Setting Goals Millennium Fine Words Millennium Development Goals

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.”

Mean I Can Action Fine Fine Words

Book:The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition

Source: The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition

“Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.”

Wonder Fine Sarcastic Plagiarism Fine Words

Author:Jonathan Swift

“actions speak louder than words”

Inspirational Wisdom Action Speak Teaching Activity Behavior Suicide Words Loud Latin Behaviour Helping People Doings Thoughts And Actions Silence Speaks Human Actions Getting Things Done Words And Actions Actions Speak Louder Than Words Well Said Win Friends And Influence People Throwing Away Stand Up For Yourself Catholic Faith Talk Is Cheap Think Before You Speak World Affairs Proverbs Wisdom Weak Points Early Bird Kind Deeds Loud Voices Time Proverbs Actions Speak Louder True Christianity Italian Proverb Latin Phrases Stop Hating Words You Speak Bad Actions Two Cents Latin Proverb Making Amends Speak Less Fine Words Inspirational History Deeds And Words Words Hurt Latin And Greek Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder Things Are Not What They Seem Understanding Him Action Love Wrong Thinking Cheating Men Religious Devotion Tell Me You Love Me Words Mean Nothing Necessary Use Two Ears And One Mouth

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot”

Mean Important Sometimes Difficult Justice Opinion Clear Fine Findings Important Things Innocent Murderer Hercule Poirot Fine Words

Book:Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air

Source: Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air

“Something tells me my spit wouldn't mean as much to Corr as yours would." There's a long Pause before Sean speaks. He says, "Maybe not yet." Yet! I don't think I've ever heard such a fine word before.”

Thinking Mean Long Speak Heard Fine Pauses Spit Sean Fine Words

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

Virtue Fine Vices Appearance Chinese Confucianism Vice And Virtue Confucian Fine Words

Book:The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius

Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius

“Before using a fine word, make a place for it.”

Writing Fine Fine Words

Book:Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert

“Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.”

Writing Language Clear Fine Glasses Obscure Fine Words

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.”

Men Looks Doe Beautiful Flower Fine Buddhist Scent Fine Words

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.”

Life Real Inspiration Suffering Fine Fine Words

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.”

Said Half Fine Idiot Sauce Fine Words Parsnips

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?”

People Fine Gains Deeds Noble Taoism Abandon Noble Deeds Fine Words

Author:Laozi

“When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.”

Love Use Simple Doubt Fine Rose Simplicity Native Cheeks Rouge Fine Words

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it.”

“It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.”

Alive Fine Good Food Fine Words

Author:Moliere

“There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.”

Fine Southern Fine Words Parsnips

Book:The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe

Source: The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe

“If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.”