“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”
Source: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
“Sticks and stones can break my bones and I have my Swiss Army Knife if they hit me and if I kill them it will be self defense and I won't go to prison.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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“as my mother told me sticks and stones may break my bones but words don’t hurt me.”
Philip Hammond
(1955) British Conservative politician
23 August 2015
2015
Source: http://en.trend.az/iran/politics/2426555.html
Source: http://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/580077--hammond
Source: http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=248893
“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”
Eric Idle
(1943) British comedian, actor, singer and writer
“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”
Source: Narcissus in Chains
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”
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“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.