--CICERO.
Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
--EARL OF ROSCOMMON.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?--JOB 38:2.
It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not
return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.--ABDEL-KADER.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen
hunting for words.--H.W. SHAW.
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to
see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a
parcel of big words without anything in them.--HAZLITT.
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to
the bones.--PROVERBS 16:24.
Men who have much to say use the fewest words.--H.W. SHAW.
What you keep by you you may change and mend; but words once spoken
can never be recalled.--ROSCOMMON.
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk
about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do
nothing else.--CARLYLE.
It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words
and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping
wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity.--M.M. BREWSTER.
"Words, words, words!" says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us
from the destructive power of words! There are words which can
separate hearts sooner than sharp swords.
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