With words we govern men.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.
I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.
I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!
People that want to control words will never ever try to break up, like, a fight on a subway. They will never confront an aggressive person on the bus. They prefer their fights to be easy.
Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.
And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.
If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!
Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful way that you can. It's not just blurting stuff out and having verbal diarrhea.
