Didn’t your mother ever teach you that sticks and stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you.
Mine did before I started school.
That’s a line for sissy-boys.
Mommies only need to tell their kids that particular lie when they want the little snivelers stop whining.
Man’s tongue is soft,
and bone doth lack;
yet a stroke therewith
may break a man’s back
Not that I think you are a sissy boy, of course. Some moms parroted it only because it was the line the other liberal hippy moms in their baby sitting co-ops used at their commune...