My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well
bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge read more

High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well
bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge
will come to lodge.

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.

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!

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.)

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds;
You can't do that way when you're flying words.
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Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds;
You can't do that way when you're flying words.
"Careful with fire," is good advice we know
"Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.
Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;
But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.