Wednesday, December 08, 2021

Beers & Books CLXXIV – Peig Sayers

“If curses came from the heart,
it would be a sin.
But if it is from the lips they come,
and we use them only
to give force to our speech,
they are a great relief to the heart.”
 

Peig Sayers (1873 – 8 December 1958)

5 comments:

  1. Well thank fuck for that then... (Oh... and if they come from the keyboard?)

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  2. Wise words. Sometimes we may blurt things out but don't truly mean it.

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    1. Ah, I have the opposite problem Mark, as I suspect many of us have, and with much more than curses, namely that I blurt things out that I really mean, but would have been better keeping silent.

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    2. And then there are those who, unlike Andrew do not wear their heart on their tongue, do "swallow" everything.
      A kingdom for the right mixture!


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