Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair;

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Some men speak one moment before they think; others tediously study everything they say, and in conversation bore us as painfully as was the travail of their mind; they are, as it were, made up of phrases and quaint expressions, whilst their gestures are as affected as their behaviour. They call themselves “purists,”210 and do not venture to say the most trifling word not in use, however expressive it may be. Nothing comes from them worth remembering, nothing is spontaneous and unrestrained; they speak correctly,211 but they are very tiresome.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

A man sees. A man hears. A man knows.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee

I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.

If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.