A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.
It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Speech is the index of the mind.
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
A statement once let loose cannot be caught by four horses
Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
The words can not return.
I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don't want to say it anymore, then I won't.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.
