Judicious absence is a weapon. [ Charles Reade ]

A good tongue is a good weapon. [ Proverb ]

A spirit superior to every weapon. [ Ovid ]

Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar. [ Goodrich ]

Wit ill applied is a dangerous weapon. [ Proverb ]

The guerilla weapon of political warfare. [ Horace Greeley ]

Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [ Livy ]

Temper - a weapon that we hold by the blade. [ J. M. Barrie ]

An acute word cuts deeper than a sharp weapon. [ Proverb ]

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. [ Proverb ]

There is no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Weeping is not alone woman's weapon, but also a specific for transient sorrows. [ Mme. Dufresnoy ]

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. [ Montaigne ]

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth. [ Madden ]

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. [ Theodore Parker ]

But what is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy: only the precursor of the reason. [ Emerson ]

Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. [ Tupper ]

The pen is a formidable weapon; but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. [ G. D. Prentice ]

A weapon is anything that can serve to wound; and sentiments are perhaps the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound his fellow man. [ Balzac ]

When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]

Invective may be a sharp weapon, but overuse blunts its edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true it is an error of art to indulge it too long. [ Tyndall ]

The two most precious things on this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. [ Colton ]

Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause. Many of its conclusions, more ingenious than sound, are like the recommendations of a people to keep full bottles, because a good many have been found dead with empty ones by them. [ Bovee ]

A sense of humor is a saving grace, and happy is that woman who has been blessed by birth with that rare sixth sense of seeing the funny side. If you have it naturally, be gladly grateful, for it is a greater gift than beauty or riches. It means cheerfulness, contentment, courage and, possessing it, you are equipped with a potent weapon against the blows of fate. [ Unknown ]