A good person's words are a fountain of life, but a wicked person's words hide a violent nature.

A good person's words will benefit many people, but you can kill yourself with stupidity.

Knowledge is spread by people who are wise, not by fools.

What a joy it is to find just the right word for the right occasion!

If you know what you are talking about, you have something more valuable than gold or jewels.

You have to whip a horse, you have to bridle a donkey, and you have to beat a fool.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "Raise your hand over the land of Egypt to bring the locusts. They will come and eat everything that grows, everything that has survived the hail."

The Sovereign LORD has taught me what to say, so that I can strengthen the weary. Every morning he makes me eager to hear what he is going to teach me.

They were all well impressed with him and marveled at the eloquent words that he spoke. They said, "Isn't he the son of Joseph?"

Someone who holds back the truth causes trouble, but one who openly criticizes works for peace.

Suddenly he was going with her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered, like a deer prancing into a trap

An intelligent person learns more from one rebuke than a fool learns from being beaten a hundred times.

You have to whip a horse, you have to bridle a donkey, and you have to beat a fool.

Even if you beat fools half to death, you still can't beat their foolishness out of them.

Don't be stupid like a horse or a mule, which must be controlled with a bit and bridle to make it submit."

But a man who commits adultery doesn't have any sense. He is just destroying himself.