Quote#Speech
Words are like to arrows, which are easily shot out, but hardly got…
Quote byThomas Lodge · 1558–1625
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Devil Conjured (1596), p. 83.
English (original)
Words are like to arrows, which are easily shot out, but hardly got in again.
— Thomas Lodge
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