| Eliot Harlow Robinson - 1916 - 402 pages
...highly civilized, but worse, in a way, than either of the other methods mentioned. The saying " Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me," which we used to chant as children, is far from the truth. It is perfectly possible for men to express... | |
| Douglas J. Moo - Religion - 1985 - 196 pages
...stop than any forest fire (cf. v. 5). We know from bitter experience that the childhood taunt, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', reverses the truth of the matter. The wounds caused by sticks and stones heal; the wounds caused by... | |
| Religion - 1987 - 148 pages
...liberation and vision, partnership in individual lives and in the life of the church ecumenical. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is simply not true. Words do hurt deep inside sometimes, so that people may leave our churches weighed... | |
| Lainie Blum Cogan, Judy Weiss - Education - 2002 - 662 pages
...name, or embarrass him in public." How did Saul violate this rule? 4 Would Rambam agree that "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?" Why or why not? 4 Role-play this scene between Saul and his son Jonathan. But instead of acting out... | |
| Gerhard O. Forde - Religion - 1990 - 210 pages
...speak a Word that not only explains but does something. How does one do something with words? "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." So goes the old saying. It is not true, of course, since the unkind word is often most damaging of... | |
| Mortimer Levitt, Theodore Levitt - Business & Economics - 1998 - 176 pages
...indeed." Shakespeare's character would have killed for the offense. The children's ditty goes, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." More sensibly, the Chinese say, "Sticks may only break my bones, but words can really shatter me."... | |
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