Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
Soft words are hard arguments.
'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths out grabe.
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the g...
Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.
Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.
My words are not a form of free advice. They are born through my journey called life!
A man's words will always express what has been treasured in his heart.
To often we speak just to hear the sound of our own voice, when we should speak only when the words are sweeter than silence.
My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.
Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal.
It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
Your words can only act like the path. It is your actions that define your destiny.
Words are truly the image of the soul.
I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us...