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Date: 12 January 2016

 

Post No. 2482

 

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(SPEECH PROVERBS: Part 3)

61.Words may pass, but blows fall heavy.

62.Guard your tongue, whatever else you may not guard, otherwise you will come to grief through wrong utterance– Tirukkural 127

63.Never speak ill of the dead.

64.It is a good tongue that says no ill, and a better heart that thinks none.

65.To speak ill of others is the fifth element (four elements are earth, air, fire and water according to medieval philosophy. So fifth element is contrary to nature).

66.Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

 

 

67.Say well or be still.

68.Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.

69.Ill will never said well.

70.Ill words are bellows to a slackening fire.

71.Good words anoint us, and ill do unjoint us.

 

72.If a man utters well considered pleasing words, he will grow in virtue while his sin will decrease– Tirukkural 96

73.What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.

74.Speech is the picture of the mind.

75.In many words, a lie or two may escape.

76.In many words, the truth goes by.

 

77.From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.

78.Hear much, speak little.

79.Hear and see and say nothing.

80.He that hears much and speaks ot at all, shall be welcome both in bower and hall.

81.Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.

 

82.Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.

 

 

83.It is better to play with the ears than the tongue.

84.Hear twice before you speak once.

 

85.Brevity is the soul of wit.

86.Few words are best.

87.Deliver your words not by number but by weight.

88.Least said soonest mended.

89.Who knows most, speaks least.

90.Tell not all you know, all you have, or all you can do.

 

 

91.Whom we love best, to them we can say least.

92.Half a word is enough for a wise man ( a small hint or an indirect suggestion is sufficient for those who understand quickly).

 

93.A word to the wise is enough (verbum sapienti sat est).

94.Send a wise man on an errand and say nothing to him.

95.A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

 

 

96.All truths are not to be told.

97.Ale sellers should not be tale-tellers.

98.Masters should be sometimes blind, and sometimes deaf.

99.Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.

100.Name not a rope, in his house that hanged himself.

101.Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet (Chinese Proverb)

 

 

102.That is not good language which all understand not.

103.Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar (One’s thought should be those of the wise, but one’s language should be those of the common people).

to be continued………………….. swami_48@yahoo.com

–Subham–