“Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.”

“Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more.”

“The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.”

“You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts.”

“Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.”

“I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves to him.If I am dumb beside your bodywhile silence blossoms like tumors on our lipsit is because I hear a man climb stairsand clear his throat outside our door.”