There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. –C.S. Lewis
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer
… Robert Louis Stevenson
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
–Robert Southey
Edward R. Murrow, and American Journalist early in the twentieth century said, “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.”
Do you agree?
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives.
–Mahatma Gandhi
~ The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. ~
Bernard M. Baruch
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. –Pearl Strachan
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ~
Gustave Flaubert
… but oh I am enjoying the challenge of trying!! are you?