Happy is the wooing,
That is not long a-doing.
1830. Wool. Many go for wool and come back shorn.
1831. Wool sellers. Wool sellers know wool buyers.
1832. Word. An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
A man of words and not of deeds,
Is like a garden full of weeds.
Words are but sands,
'Tis money buys lands.
Sometimes words
Wound more than swords.