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  • I live on good soup, not on fine words.

  • actions speak louder than words

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster
  • Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

    'Whitshed's Motto on his Coach' (1724) (Libertas... Freedom and the land of my birth)
  • 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.

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

    George Eliot (2006). “The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • 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.

    Fine Words   Half   Sauce  
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.148
  • 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.

  • Fine words dresse ill deedes.

    Fine Words   Fine   Ill  
    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.307
  • 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

    Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder on board: including The mystery of the Blue Train, What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! [and] Death in the air”, Dodd Mead
  • There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

    Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The Waverley Novels: The bride of Lammermoor. A legend of Montrose. Ivanhoe”, p.229
  • Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

    James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.117
  • 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   Simple   Rose  
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   Long  
  • Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

    Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”
  • 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.

    Mistake   Men   Leader  
  • It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

    'Les femmes savantes' (1672) act 2, sc. 7
  • 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.

    "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.
  • 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.

    Iron   Water   Different  
    Joseph Stalin (1953). “Works”
  • 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.

    Morning   Years   Clothes  
  • Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

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

    Life   Real   Inspiration  
  • Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

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