Terms of use
Reading Propounded means accepting the terms below. They are deliberately narrow: the point of the archive is that you take the words and use them.
Last revised 19 August 2026.
What you may do with the messages
Copy any of the 347 messages and send it in a card, an email, a chat, a speech, or a signature sheet. Edit it, shorten it, merge two of them, or use one as a starting point and end up somewhere else entirely. Do it at work or at home, once or a hundred times.
You do not need permission, you do not owe credit, and you do not need to say where the wording came from. A message you send is yours to have sent. That is what the archive is for.
The same applies inside an organization: an HR team, an office manager, or anyone assembling a card for a colleague may use these messages without asking.
What you may not do with the archive
The individual messages are free to use. The archive as a collection — the writing, the classification by occasion, recipient, and tone, the editing that removed every near-duplicate, and the pages built from it — is not.
- Do not scrape or bulk-copy the collection to republish it, in whole or in substantial part, as another message site, app, dataset, or download.
- Do not present the archive as your own work, or resell access to it.
- Do not attempt to interfere with the site or the people using it, including by automated request volume intended to degrade it.
The distinction is simple. Taking a message to send to a person is the intended use. Taking the collection to stand it up somewhere else is not.
What the archive is not
These are suggested wordings, nothing more. They are not legal, employment, HR, financial, or professional advice, and they carry no view on your particular situation. Whether a given message is right for a given person is a judgement only you can make, and you make it.
The site is provided as it is, with no warranty that it will be available, uninterrupted, error-free, or suitable for any specific purpose. To the extent the law allows, no liability is accepted for any loss arising from using it or from anything you send after reading it.
Changes to these terms
These terms can change. When they do, the date at the top of this page changes with them — it is read from the page's own revision history when the site is built, so it always reflects the text you are reading rather than the last time someone remembered to update a line.