A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in
due season, how good read more

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in
due season, how good is it!

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The Moral is that gardeners pine,
Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.
Of all sad words experience read more

The Moral is that gardeners pine,
Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.
Of all sad words experience gleans,
The saddest are: "It might have beans."
(The did not make this up myself:
'Twas in a book upon my shelf.
It's witty, but I don't deny
It's rather Whittier than I.)

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

That blessed word Mesopotamia.

That blessed word Mesopotamia.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do read more

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?