The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them? — Laozi Copy Share Image
Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
