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Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing
reprove?
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with read more
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.
Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.
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.
A word to the wise is infuriating.
A word to the wise is infuriating.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
