Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can also hurt me stones and sticks break only skin while words are ghosts that haunt me slant and curved the word swords fall it pierces and sticks inside me bats and bricks may ache through bones but words can mortify me pain from words has left its scar on mind and hear thats tender cuts and bruises have not healed its words that i remember. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me meaning 1 said in order to show that people cannot be hurt by unpleasant things that are said to them 2 learn more. After shanika recites that age old pithy adage sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me the young girl claims to feel better handsome me sticks and stones may break my bones but chains and whips excite me. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me bullys words can be just as hurtful as violence after shanika recites that age old pithy adage sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me the young girl claims to feel better handsome me