The brain women never interest us like the heart women; white roses please less than red.—Holmes.
There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than by the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle encouragement of amiable and sensible women.—Romilly.
Words.—A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.—Proverbs 15:1.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.
—Shakespeare.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from doing ill.—Cicero.
Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
—Earl of Roscommon.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?—Job 38:2.
It is with a word as with an arrow: the arrow once loosed does not return to the bow; nor a word to the lips.—Abdel-Kader.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.—H.W. Shaw.
I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.—Hazlitt.