The tongue is more to be feared than the sword
Japanese Proverb
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CONFUCIUS The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words
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JAPANESE PROVERB Gluttony kills more then the sword.
[Gluttony kills more than the sword.]
GEORGE HERBERT The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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ADAM SMITH Her silence should be feared more than her words.
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INDIAN PROVERB How much more cruel the pen may be than the sword
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GERMANY KENT Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
NAPOLEON Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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ENGLISH PROVERB He who is feared gets more than his own.
SPANISH PROVERB It is better to be loved than feared
AFRICAN PROVERB It is better to be feared than loved.
LEWIS CARROLL Gluttony kills more than the sword.
PROVERB Gluttony kills more than the sword
PROVERB Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.
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THOMAS CARLYLE And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
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DAVID PERLMUTTER Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing
BIBLE From this it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
ROBERT BURTON It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (MACCHIAVELLI) An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions led
by a deer.
UNKNOWN A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.
AMIT KALANTRI A scholar’s pen is more valuable than a warrior’s sword.
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the edge of the sword; but not so...
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PAULO COELHO The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.
TOWNSEND HARRIS Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
CORNELIUS NEPOS It is always better for a leader to be revered rather than feared.
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EIJI YOSHIKAWA Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live...
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EIJI YOSHIKAWA I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Your tongue is more foolish than you but your ears are wiser than you.
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SOICHIRO HONDA What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU We presume that more or less than 1,800 are feared dead.
COL. RAUL FARNACIO My love's more richer than my tongue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Words do not create change as much as example does. Be the example
BRENT M. JONES Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA How to change the world:
• spread positivity
• bring people up instead of dragging the...
GERMANY KENT Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.
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AMY HARMON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hunger is sharper than the sword.
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AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
TERRY PRATCHETT The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp
TERRY PRATCHETT The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they kn...
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SOICHIRO HONDA The pen is mightier than the sword.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON The joke is mightier than the sword.
BASSEM YOUSSEF The pen is mightier than the sword.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The pen is mightier than the sword
AMERICAN PROVERB Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of t...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than th...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more import...
JOHN STEINBECK Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulan...
JEREMY TAYLOR Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petula...
JEREMY TAYLOR Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petula...
JEREMY TAYLOR My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japan...
SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG The oil can is mightier than the sword.
EVERETT DIRKSEN Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
MARIE CURIE Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so...
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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APURVA GAGLANI The pen is no longer mightier than the sword. Everything the pen writes is censored, untrue, inaccur...
ELIAS SHREVE From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the
sword.
[Lat., Hinc quam sit cala...
ROBERT BURTON Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
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GARY F EVANS... Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior E...
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