Just A Thought ~ TOO MUCH TALK

"The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words."

~ The Atlanta Journal ~

Our wonderful ability to read and write has led to excess verbiage, and we are bound with red-tape.

About 2,500 years ago, Lao Tse wrote, in the Tao Te Ching:

"More words count less."

If we do not know how to say clearly what we mean, we may easily get tangled up in words, when a few words might have done the job quite well.