Definition of deeds

"deeds" in the noun sense

1. deed, deed of conveyance, title

a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it

"salvation by deeds"

"the reward for good works"

"he signed the deed"

"he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment"

2. act, deed, human action, human activity

something that people do or cause to happen

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Quotations for deeds

Deeds, not words. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Deeds alone suffice. [ Whittier ]

What if my words
Were meant for deeds. [ George Eliot ]

Good words and no deeds. [ Proverb ]

Deeds survive the doers. [ Horace Mann ]

Friendship requires deeds. [ Richter ]

Fine words dress ill deeds. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

'Tis deeds must win the prize. [ William Shakespeare ]

Mighty in deeds, not in words. [ German Proverb ]

Little moments make an hour.
Little thoughts a book,
Little seeds a tree or flower.
Water-drops a brook;
Little deeds of faith and love
Make a home for you above. [ Anonymous ]

Words are women, deeds are men. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Brave men do not boast nor bluster,
Deeds, not words, speak for such. [ Rivarol ]

Words pay no debts, give her deeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

He is gentle that doth gentle deeds. [ Chaucer ]

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. [ Socrates ]

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well,
And yet words are no deeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

Song forbids victorious deeds to die. [ Schiller ]

God blesses still the generous thought
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds. [ Whittier ]

Examples hasten deeds to good effects. [ Mirror for Magistrates ]

Big words seldom accompany good deeds. [ Danish Proverb ]

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [ Ovid ]

Deeds are fruits; words are but leaves. [ Proverb ]

Parent of wicked, bane of honest deeds. [ Prior ]

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. [ William Shakespeare ]

The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [ Ovid ]

Good deeds remain, all things else perish. [ Proverb ]

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. [ John Webster ]

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. [ William Congreve ]

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap;
Who sows the false will reap the vain;
Erect and sound thy conscience keep,
From hollow words and deeds refrain. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. [ Pascal ]

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover. [ Shelley ]

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men. [ Napoleon I ]

His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]

Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds,
As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds. [ William Cowper ]

Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime. [ Byron ]

Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. [ Byron ]

Great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light,
For ever blessing those that look on them. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds. [ Proverb ]

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. [ F. S. Osgood ]

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds;
I do not make the accident of birth
The standard of their merit. [ Mrs. Hale ]

Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath give. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. [ Pascal ]

Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a bell. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

Great deeds immortal are - they cannot die,
Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost,
They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake
Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. [ Aytoun ]

The generous warmth that prompts to worthy deeds. [ Gifford ]

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet. [ Bailey ]

Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind;
He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind. [ John Dryden ]

Friends are to be estimated from deeds, not words. [ Liv ]

It is in vain to use words when deeds are expected. [ Proverb ]

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. [ Shelley ]

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. [ Garibaldi ]

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself. [ Sophocles ]

His lifetime is full of deeds, not of indolent years. [ Ovid ]

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. [ Goethe ]

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. [ Philip J. Bailey ]

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. [ Ovid ]

He wishes well is worthless, unless the deed go with it. [ Plautus ]

Through love the earth becomes free; through deeds, great. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. [ Seneca ]

With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. [ Milton ]

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. [ Proverb ]

Our acts make or mar us, - we are the children of our own deeds. [ Victor Hugo ]

Deeds of lowly virtue fade before the glare of lofty ostentation. [ Klopstock ]

Go on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. [ Virgil ]

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence. [ Hindu saying ]

Real worth requires no interpreter; Its everyday deeds form its blazonry. [ Chamfort ]

The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see. [ Goethe ]

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. [ Whittier ]

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. [ Feltham ]

Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study. [ Aughey ]

Friends must be preserved with good deeds, and enemies reclaimed with fair words. [ Severus ]

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary. [ Plautus ]

We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. [ St. John ]

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves. [ H. Giles ]

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions. [ Alcott ]

The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved there, and still indicate what he was in former days. [ Corneille ]

It has long seemed to me that it would be more honorable to our ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. [ Horace Mann ]

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions. [ Aeschines ]

When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds. [ Beecher ]

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers; they arouse and animate our own people. [ Henry Clay ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. [ Schiller ]

I pick up favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds
And offices of life; to life itself,
With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose. [ Burns ]

Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Let him speak of his own deeds, and not of those of his forefathers. High birth is mere accident, and not a virtue; for if reason had controlled birth, and given empire only to the worthy, perhaps Arbaces would have been Xerxes, and Xerxes Arbaces. [ Metastasio ]

Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not. [ Fénelon ]

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure; but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account. [ Bruyere ]

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. [ Chapin ]

Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history. [ Moses Harvey ]

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasn: Nourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies. [ Dr. Chalmers ]

Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and command the mind; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love; in martial scenes it rouses the soul to fearless deeds of daring and valor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. [ Acton ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

deeds in Scrabble®

The word deeds is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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The 127 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In deeds

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deeds in Words With Friends™

The word deeds is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence deeds

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Word Growth involving deeds

Shorter words in deeds

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Longer words containing deeds

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