Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones is an English language children's rhyme. It persuades the child victim of name-calling to ignore the taunt, to refrain from physical retaliation, and to remain calm and good-natured. The most common version, as used in that work, runs:

Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But names will never hurt me.

An alternate version is:

Sticks and stones
May break my bones
But words will never hurt me.

This sentiment is reflected in the common law of civil assault, which holds that mere name-calling does not give rise to a cause of action, while putting someone in fear of physical violence does.

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