A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

With our aptness for phrasemaking, we sometimes mesmerize ourselves into assuming that since we have cleverly labeled something, we have somehow magically solved the problem it presents.

Soft words win hard hearts.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

A word and a stone cannot be called back.

Words are such a playground!

A word once uttered can never be recalled.