A word once uttered can never be recalled.


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A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
THOMAS HOOD
But words once spoke can never be recalled
WENTWORTH DILLON
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
EARL OF ROSCOMMON
A word uttered cannot be taken back
AFRICAN PROVERB
A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled
SPANISH PROVERB
As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind clos...
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ
The spoken word cannot be recalled but the written word leaves evidence.
QUINN STILLETTO
Time flies never to be recalled.
VIRGIL
Time flies never to be recalled.
UNKNOWN
All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, ...
CECELIA AHERN
Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fle...
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respec...
MARIO PUZO
What can be proved by a photograph, can never be by a word.
T.A
If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd...
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'
JULIE ANDREWS
Drive carefully! Remember, it's not only a car that can be recalled by it's maker.
UNKNOWN
Life is unpredictable.The words "always" and "never ever" cannot be uttered by mortals like us.
ANUPAMA GARG
A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.
MARISSA MEYER
To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedie...
PEARL BUCK
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedie...
PEARL S. BUCK
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedi...
PEARL S. BUCK
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
MARTIN AMIS
[Letterman recalled how Carson was asked once by a] Tonight ... I started out in a gaseous state and...
JOHNNY CARSON
What was once thought can never be unthought.
CARL J. FRIEDRICH
What was once thought can never be unthought
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT
Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left u...
ANN RINALDI
Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, i...
JOHN ADAMS
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once los...
JOHN ADAMS
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
OVID
Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.
HAROLD HOLZER
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
WALTER SCOTT
Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without th...
ROBERT JAMES WALLER
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina...
ORSON SCOTT CARD
Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once fa...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY
Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ...
JOHN FLANAGAN
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
PAUL AUSTER
My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long a...
CHANG-RAE LEE
I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.
JEFFREY FRY
There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater tha...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN
He is the English Horace,
ALEXANDER POPE
Trust can never be earned, but can only be given. But once you have it, you can damn sure lose it.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Truly, there is magic in fairy tales.
For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time......
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE
The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way th...
SAOIRSE RONAN
Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard; My lips are now forbid to speak ...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in p...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL
You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
You can never eliminate the word fail in your life's dictionary,but you can eliminate the word failu...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up??
BHENG927
And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
TREVANIAN
A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be bro...
SUN TZU
Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble ...
W.H. AUDEN
Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday
YIDDISH PROVERB
The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a stro...
KARL MENNINGER
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,'...
NANCY KRESS
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse...
MAHATMA GANDHI
A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one insi...
COLEMAN BARKS
Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
WALTER ANDERSON
Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.
GEORGE MACDONALD
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy ro...
FANNY KELLY
The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.
LORII MYERS
Now she is ignoring me as first

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DEYTH BANGER
Eden is a factory and human was a reject.
We are being recalled in order to be fixed.
TOBA BETA
A No uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a Yes merely uttered to please, or w...
MAHATMA GANDHI
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
How can a man be said to be sane & successful,having five or ten cars at once,but has never given a ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
HAROLD HOLZER
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to ...
MAHATMA GANDHI
My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
KENDRICK LAMAR
Danny is amazed that he feels so comfortable. He is amazed that while there are some people you can ...
DAVID LEVITHAN
What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
JOHN DICKINSON
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
JOHNSON
Sensitivity to the sound of one's name is a special gift of loners. Because the loner does not often...
WATARU WATARI
Success can never manifest where the people are ignorant of the word belief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.
The word once spoken flies beyond recall.
HORACE
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
I try to do yoga once a week.
ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO
I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
MARILYN MONROE
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you c...
NEIL GAIMAN
While it may be true that the best advertising is word-of-mouth, never lose sight of the fact it als...
JEF I. RICHARDS
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and t...
SUZY KASSEM

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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
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Tear thyself from delay.
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While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
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Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
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Every old poem is sacred.
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
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No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
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A picture is a poem without words.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
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What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
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Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
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Whatever advice you give, be brief.
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Those that are little, little things suit.
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They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
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Make a good use of the present.
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The covetous man is ever in want.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
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With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
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The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
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I will not add another word.
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Faults are soon copied.
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
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The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
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There is measure in all things.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
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Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
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The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
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Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
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It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
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I shall not altogether die.
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
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Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
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Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
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If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
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Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
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