Whatever you may fail to guard, guard well your tongue, For flawed speech unfailingly invokes anguish and affliction.
By a single word of injury Do all a man's virtues lose their goodness.
The wound caused by fire heals in its time; The burn inflicted by an inflamed tongue never heals.
— Tirukkural 13: 126-129
The pen may be mightier than the sword but the tongue beats them all.
2 comments:
so true...so true!
Elaine, some people are not further book-educated and may inadvertently choose the wrong words sometimes. However, when for example a man says the wrong words, he is hoping the woman is insightful enough to know what he really means because she knows he has a pure heart.
King
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