"If a horse with four legs can sometimes stumble, how much more a man with only one tongue! " ~~ Shalom Aleichem
"Press your lips together: don’t be in a hurry to answer." ~~ Talmud, Abodah Zara 35a
"Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit! " ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 34:13
"If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth two." ~~ Talmud, Megillah 18a
"Deceit in words is worse than deceit in money. " ~~ Talmud, Bava Metzia
"Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls." ~~ Moses Ibn Ezra
"Whoso remembers the blemishes of others is the one himself blemished. " ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim
"But how can you say, “It was only talk, so no harm was done?” Were this true, then your prayers, and your words of kindness, would be a waste of breath." ~~ Nachman of Bratslav
"The worst of mankind is he whose power of speech exceeds his power of thought. " ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Be not boastful in your speech! " ~~ Ben Sira 4:32
"A man with a perverse tongue falls into calamity. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 17:20
"Did we realize the inner meaning of each word we utter, our time would suffice for but a few words. " ~~ Jacob Klatzkin
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