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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.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.
The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger
than all fighting.
You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to
yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their read more
You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to
yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
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.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?