Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Listen to many, speak to a few.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life -- there, if one must speak out, the real man.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. GeorgeMore [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results ofMore [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]