Where does this originate please?

smudge | 17:43 Fri 11th Feb 2005 | Phrases & Sayings

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Words have no wings

But they can fly a thousand miles

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Clanad

Your own George Eliot (actually the nom de plume for novelist Mary Ann Evans) said "Words have wings, but fly not where we would"... close enough?

smudge

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Well it's nearly the same - so thank you muchly Clanad.

The exact quote you have here, smudge, is an old Korean proverb.

smudge

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Thank you too RevShirls - that's something else I've learned today.

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