And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Jas. 3:6<\/i><\/p>\n
6372<\/b> What If Nothing To Say? <\/b><\/p>\n
When the telephone was invented, someone told Thoreau that now the people in Massachusetts could talk to the people in Texas. Thoreau wisely questioned, \u201cBut suppose the people in Massachusetts have nothing to say to the people in Texas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Sidney W. Powell<\/p>\n
6373<\/b> Edison\u2019s Talking Machine<\/b><\/p>\n
Once when introducing Thomas A. Edison at a dinner, the toastmaster mentioned his many inventions, dwelling at length on the talking machine. The aged inventor then rose to his feet, smiled and said gently to his audience: \u201cI thank the gentleman for his kind remarks, but I must insist upon a correction. God invented the talking machine. I only invented the first one that can be shut off.\u201d<\/p>\n
6374<\/b> Observe With Care<\/b><\/p>\n
If your lips would keep from slips,<\/p>\n
Five things observe with care:<\/p>\n
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,<\/p>\n
And how and when and where. <\/p>\n
6375<\/b> Wright Not A Parrot<\/b><\/p>\n
Orville Wright was reproached for not taking up the challenge of the Smithsonian Institute that it was Langley, not the Wrights, who was the first to fly. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe trouble with you, Orville,\u201d said a friend, \u201cis that you are too taciturn\u2014you don\u2019t assert yourself enough. You should press-agentize.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dear friend,\u201d Orville Wright answered, \u201cthe best talker and the worst flier among the birds is the parrot.\u201d<\/p>\n
6376<\/b> Socrates\u2019 Fees<\/b><\/p>\n
A young man was sent to Socrates to learn oratory. On being introduced to the philosopher, he talked so incessantly that Socrates asked for double fees. \u201cWhy charge me double?\u201d \u201cBecause I must teach you two sciences: the one how to hold your tongue and the other how to speak. The first science is the more difficult, but aim at proficiency at it, or you will suffer greatly and create trouble without end.\u201d<\/p>\n
6377<\/b> The Forty-Nine-Year Lesson<\/b><\/p>\n
Socrates, the ecclesiastical historiographer, reports a story of one Pambo, a plain, ignorant man, who came to a learned man, and desired him to teach him some psalm or other. He began to read unto him the Thirty-ninth Psalm, \u201cI said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.\u201d Having passed this first verse, Pambo shut the book, and took his leave, saying that he would go learn that point first. <\/p>\n
When he had absented himself for the space of some months, he was demanded by his reader when he would go forward. He answered, that he had not yet learned his old lesson; and he gave the very same answer to one that asked the same question, forty-nine years after. <\/p>\n
\u2014Spencer<\/p>\n
6378<\/b> Repeating Lord\u2019s Prayer<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI wish,\u201d said Luther, \u201cthat women would repeat the Lord\u2019s prayer before opening their mouths.\u201d<\/p>\n
6379<\/b> \u201cSmall Things\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
One little, unshed raindrop<\/p>\n
May think itself too small;<\/p>\n
Yet, somewhere, a thirsty flower<\/p>\n
Awaits its fall. <\/p>\n
One little word, unspoken, <\/p>\n
May seem too small to say;<\/p>\n
But, somewhere, for that one word, <\/p>\n
A heart may pray. <\/p>\n
\u2014Helen T. Allison<\/p>\n
6380<\/b> Power Of Words<\/b><\/p>\n
A careless word may kindle strife. <\/p>\n
A cruel word may wreck a life, <\/p>\n
A bitter word may hate instill;<\/p>\n
A brutal word may smite and kill, <\/p>\n
A gracious word may smooth the way;<\/p>\n
A joyous word may light the day. <\/p>\n
A timely word may lessen stress;<\/p>\n
A loving word may heal and bless. <\/p>\n
\u2014Author Unknown<\/p>\n
6381<\/b> Barbershop Talk<\/b><\/p>\n
A barbershop in Paris has two sections: one for customers who wish to talk: the other for those who don\u2019t. The \u201ctalk\u201d section is subdivided into four cubicles labeled: \u201cSports,\u201d \u201cGeneral Topics,\u201d \u201cFamily Troubles\u201d and \u201cStock Market.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Janik Press Service<\/p>\n
6382<\/b> Talk Or Holler<\/b><\/p>\n
When a nine-year-old was asked if his two-year-old brother had started to talk yet, he replied, \u201cWhy should he talk? He gets everything he wants by hollering.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are a lot of \u201cchildren\u201d in our grown-up society who seem nowadays to get \u201ceverything they want by hollering.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Christian Victory<\/i><\/p>\n
6383<\/b> Thirsty Lady\u2014Before And After<\/b><\/p>\n
On one of his practically non-stop transcontinental lecture tours, Mark Twain after a very heavy day was about to fall asleep, exhausted, in his Pullman berth. Just as sleep was about to engulf his consciousness, he was startled by the querulous voice of an old lady intoning over and over, \u201cOh, I am so thirsty. Oh, I am so thirsty.\u201d This was repeated with maddening regularity and persistence. <\/p>\n
Unable to stand it any longer after tossing and turning for a while, Mark got up and groped down the car in his nightclothes and brought the old lady a glass of water. The old lady duly thanked him and Mark returned to his berth, looking forward to curling up in a deep sleep the minute his head hit the pillow. <\/p>\n
His expectation was about to be fulfilled when, all of a sudden, he sat bolt upright and with horror heard the too-familiar voice intoning:<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, I was so thirsty. Oh, I was so thirsty.\u201d<\/p>\n
6384<\/b> Patient\u2019s Tongue In Place<\/b><\/p>\n
After telling his fair patient to put out her tongue, the doctor continued writing out the prescription. When he had finished he turned to her and said: \u201cThere, that will do.\u201d \u201cBut, doctor,\u201d protested the lady, \u201cyou never even looked at my tongue.\u201d And the M.D. replied: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t necessary. I just wanted you to keep quiet while I wrote the prescription.\u201d<\/p>\n
6385<\/b> Movie Picture Of Her Jaws<\/b><\/p>\n
Sam\u2019s wife had injured her jaw and had to visit the emergency department at the local hospital. <\/p>\n
\u201cDid they take an X-ray photo of your wife\u2019s jaw at the hospital?\u201d an interested friend inquired. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey tried to,\u201d explained Sam, \u201cbut they ended up with a moving picture.\u201d<\/p>\n
6386<\/b> Epigram On Talkativeness<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 George Gobel notes: \u201cOne picture is worth 10,000 words\u2014but for some reason most women prefer to use 10,000 words.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cDo you object to your wife having the last word?\u201d \u201cNot at all. I\u2019m delighted when she gets to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 If silence is golden, not many people can be arrested for hoarding. <\/p>\n
\u2014E. C. Mckenzie<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. <\/p>\n
\u2014Plato<\/p>\n
\u2022 A preacher visited a family where the father had just died. He asked the young son, \u201cWhat were your father\u2019s last words?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t have any,\u201d said the boy. \u201cMama was with him to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
THE TONGUE<\/p>\n
6387<\/b> Two Jesters On Errand<\/b><\/p>\n
There is a story in the Jewish Talmud about a king who sent two jesters on an errand. In instructing them, he said, \u201cFoolish Simon, go and bring me back the best thing in the world. And you Silly John, go and find for me the worst thing in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both clowns were back in short order, each carrying a package. <\/p>\n
Simon bowed low and grinned. \u201cBehold, Sire, the best thing in the world.\u201d His package contained a tongue. <\/p>\n
John snickered and quickly unwrapped his bundle. \u201cThe worst thing in the world, Sire.\u201d Another tongue! <\/p>\n
6388<\/b> Market\u2019s Best And Worst Things<\/b><\/p>\n
The heathen philosopher Xanthus, expecting some friends to dine with him, ordered his servant Aesop to provide the best things the market could supply. Tongues only were provided; and these the cook was ordered to serve up with different sauces. Course after course was supplied, each consisting of tongue. <\/p>\n
\u201cDid I not order you,\u201d said Xanthus in a violent passion, \u201cto buy the best victuals the market afforded?\u201d \u201cAnd have I not obeyed your orders?\u201d said Aesop. \u201cIs there anything better than a tongue? Is not the tongue the bond of civil society, the organ of truth and reason, and the instrument of our praise and adoration of the gods?\u201d<\/p>\n
Xanthus ordered him to go again to the market on the morrow, and buy the worst things he could find. Aesop went, and again he purchased tongues, which the cook was ordered to serve as before. \u201cWhat! tongues again?\u201d exclaimed Xanthus. \u201cMost certainly,\u201d rejoined Aesop, \u201cthe tongue is surely the worst thing in the world. It is the instrument of all strife and contention, the inventor of lawsuits, and the source of division and wars: it is the organ of error, of lies, calumny and blasphemies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Foster<\/p>\n
6389<\/b> Tongue-Tied In Cold<\/b><\/p>\n
It was so cold in Hamilton, Ontario, that this took place: Linda Revill, 9, was on her way to school in sub-freezing weather when she decided to put her tongue on a metal cross outside a church. A policeman had to warm the cross with towels soaked in warm water to release Linda. <\/p>\n
6390<\/b> Crocodile\u2019s Mouth<\/b><\/p>\n
People would perhaps be fortunate to be like crocodiles, at least in one respect. The crocodiles have jaw, lips and teeth, but no tongue. <\/p>\n
6391<\/b> Snail\u2019s Tongue<\/b><\/p>\n
A snail is a very interesting creature. Naturalists tell us that it has teeth on its tongue! A scientist examining one such organ under his microscope counted as many as 30,000. The snail keeps its toothy little tool rolled up like a ribbon, until it is needed; then it thrusts out this sharp appendage and, although its teeth are very small, it saws through the toughest leaves and stems with comparative ease. <\/p>\n
6392<\/b> Why Moses\u2019 \u201cSlow Of Speech\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
The account given in the Talmud is as follows: Pharaoh was one day sitting on his throne with Moses on his lap, when the child took off the king\u2019s crown and put it on his own head. The \u201cwise men\u201d tried to persuade the king that this was treason, for which the child ought to be put to death; but Jethro, priest of Midian, replied, \u201cIt is the act of a child who knows no better. Let two plates be set before him, one containing gold and the other red-hot coals, and you will readily see he will prefer the latter to the former.\u201d<\/p>\n
The experiment being tried, the little boy snatched up the live coal, put it into his mouth, and burnt his tongue so severely that he was ever after \u201cheavy or slow of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014E. Cobham Brewer<\/p>\n
6393<\/b> Reciprocal Shearing<\/b><\/p>\n
A woman once came to one of the old Puritan divines of London and told him that the bands which he wore with his pulpit gown were altogether too long, and that they annoyed her greatly. She would like his permission to shorten them. Confident of his acquiescence, she had come armed with a pair of scissors. The minister mildly acquiesced and handed over the offending bands to the woman, who shortened them according to her taste with her scissors and then handed the fragments back to the minister. <\/p>\n
When he received them, he thanked her and said: \u201cNow, my good woman, there is something about you that is altogether too long, and which has annoyed me greatly, and since one good turn deserves another, I would like permission to shorten it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly,\u201d said the woman, \u201cyou have permission to do so, and here are the shears.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whereupon the worthy divine said, \u201cVery well, madam, put out your tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014C. E. Macartney<\/p>\n
6394<\/b> Cicero\u2019s Tongue<\/b><\/p>\n
Mark Anthony, while absent on an expedition in Gaul, was by the influence and efforts of Cicero declared by the Senate to be a public enemy. When he returned to Rome, his soldiers, entering the Senate house, demanded the consulship for their master, and he was made consul. Anthony proscribed Cicero, who fled, but was overtaken and seized. <\/p>\n
The head of Cicero was cut off and presented to Fulvia, the wife of Anthony. She thrust her bodkin through the tongue of the victim, saying, \u201cNow, wag no more.\u201d By her orders the head was hung by its protruding tongue upon a post in the Forum. <\/p>\n
6395<\/b> Epigram On Talkativeness<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 An aged saint once said, \u201cMany of us are like a pair of old shoes\u2014all worn out but the tongue!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014B. G. Bosh<\/p>\n
\u2022 However sharp is the knife, sharper yet is the human tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Malay Proverb<\/p>\n
THE RESULTS<\/p>\n
6396<\/b> Talking And Long Life<\/b><\/p>\n
A Soviet gerontologist published research statistics that could transform the old adage, \u201cHe kills me with his chatter\u201d into \u201cHe\u2019s killing himself with his chatter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Gurianin says his statistics show that the less one talks, the longer one lives. Anyone in the conference industry knows that constant talking exhausts one physically and mentally, and ages one prematurely. Deaf people, hermits, shepherds and monks\u2014all usually taciturn\u2014are known for living long lives. <\/p>\n
6397<\/b> Doublespeak Award<\/b><\/p>\n
The National Committee on \u201cDoublespeak,\u201d a wing of the National Council of Teachers of English, is dedicated to preventing the American language from deteriorating into balderdash and piffle. <\/p>\n
They face a difficult task, since the number of professional word-manipulators is at an all-time high. <\/p>\n
The Doublespeak Committee presents an annual award for the best examples. The 1975 winner was Yassir Arafat leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization: \u201cWe do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating co-existence that we have shed so much blood.\u201d<\/p>\n
6398<\/b> Harvard Prof. Ate Shirt<\/b><\/p>\n
At least one man\u2014a chemistry professor at Harvard\u2014kept his promise to \u201ceat his shirt\u201d when he lost a wager several years ago. To make it digestible, he dissolved the garment in acid, neutralized the acid with a base, filtered out the precipitated material, spread it on a slice of bread and had it for lunch. <\/p>\n
6399<\/b> Krafft\u2019s Potash Field<\/b><\/p>\n
When Krafft learned there was a rich supply of potash under his neighbor\u2019s seemingly worthless swampland, he hurried over to make a deal before Dan got wise too. They both knew the swampy acreage was just a tax drag, Krafft lied blandly, but with it handy to graze his cattle, he\u2019d pay $2,000 for the land. <\/p>\n
This sounded like finding money, and Dan grabbed at the offer. But when he saw Krafft begin dredging out potash, the valuable mineral that\u2019s used in glassmaking, Dan sued him for the land\u2019s true value. <\/p>\n
\u201cKrafft pulled a fast one,\u201d Dan complained. \u201cHe knew there was a fortune in my swamp, and that talk about wanting it for his cows was only a pack of lies to swindle me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA buyer doesn\u2019t have to spoil a good bargain by telling everything he knows, does he?\u201d Krafft shrugged. \u201cAnyhow, Dan got more than he ever expected for his land, so nobody\u2019s hurt if I make a nice gain on my investment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the point of law you must decide\u2014can Dan collect the difference between \u201cworthless acreage\u201d and a valuable potash deposit? <\/p>\n
Yes, Krafft had to pay another $73,000. A buyer needn\u2019t reveal all he knows, Nebraska\u2019s Supreme Court held, but Krafft had pretended he wanted the land for grazing, and he made a point about its being worthless. \u201cHaving of his own volition spoken when speech wasn\u2019t required, he should have confined himself to the truth,\u201d the court concluded. \u201cHis passive privilege of remaining silent for the purpose of availing himself of the fruits of superior knowledge did not include affirmative aid amounting to deceit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Florence K. Palmer<\/p>\n
6400<\/b> Hitler And The Word<\/b><\/p>\n
In the momentous hour when Nazism was in its nascent stage, Hitler spoke to a group of people in a beer cellar in Munich. His inflammatory words which bristled with hate, were mirrored in the hardened faces of the evil group, and soon they engulfed the world in war. <\/p>\n
An artist has portrayed the scene, putting on canvas the facial reactions of the group to Hitler\u2019s fiery words. He gave this title to the painting: \u201cIn the Beginning Was the Word.\u201d<\/p>\n
6401<\/b> At Least Something Said<\/b><\/p>\n
A man who was regarded as being no genius went to his father- in-law\u2019s for the first time, and he wished to make a good impression. So his friend said to him, \u201cIf you do not utter a single word you will be thought a fool, so say something, if only a greeting.\u201d \u201cYes, I quite understand.\u201d When he went there he was silent from the beginning to the end, but just as he was leaving he said to his father-in-law, \u201cHave you ever seen a duck with arms?\u201d \u201cNo, I haven\u2019t.\u201d \u201cNor have I,\u201d he replied. It would have been better to say nothing at all. <\/p>\n
\u2014Japanese Anecdote<\/p>\n
6402<\/b> Practicing On Wife\u2019s Ear<\/b><\/p>\n
A young physicist told me that he often discusses his projects with his wife. \u201cI describe in detail what I\u2019m doing, and she doesn\u2019t understand a word. But sometimes, when I\u2019m through, I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014National Geographic<\/i><\/p>\n
6403<\/b> Anxious To Hear Himself<\/b><\/p>\n
The toastmaster introduced the speaker with great fervor, stressing her years of faithful service to the club and eulogizing her ability and charm. Somewhat overwhelmed, the speaker faced the audience. <\/p>\n
\u201cAfter such an introduction,\u201d she said disarmingly, \u201cI can hardly wait to hear what I\u2019m going to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Adnelle H. Heskett<\/p>\n
6404<\/b> Epigram On Talkative (Results)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 The pheasant would not be shot but for its cries. <\/p>\n
\u2014Japanese Proverb<\/p>\n
\u2022 Our talks are often in first drafts\u2014lots of corrections necessary! <\/p>\n
\u2022 The trouble with telling a good story is that it always reminds the other guy of a dull one. <\/p>\n
\u2022 I\u2019m careful of the words I say to keep them soft and sweet. I never know from day to day which ones I\u2019ll have to eat. <\/p>\n
\u2014Lay o\u2019 the Land<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 It\u2019s more important to get in the first thought than the last word. <\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Accusers ; Complaining ; Murmuring ; Rumors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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