A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yi ...

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.