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Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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Facts are stubborn things,
but statistics are more pliable.
- Laurence J. Peter
There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway
is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Education is a method whereby
one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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.
- The Buddha
Always speak the truth,
think before you speak,
and write it down afterwards.
- Lewis Carroll
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
What we speak becomes the house we live in.
- Hafiz
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
Every thought you think
and every word you speak
is affirming something.
- Louise L. Hay
Keep silence for the most part,
and speak only when you must,
and then briefly.
- Epictetus
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
When people speak to you about a preventive war,
you tell them to go fight it.
After my experience, I have come to hate war.
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Ask why this task is on your to-do list.
Consider discarding those items to which
you are not truly committed.
For the tasks which do speak
to the longings of your own heart,
begin now, today, this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
It takes two to speak the truth:
one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can speak what you will never hear,
if you can write what you will never read,
you have done rare things.
- Henry David Thoreau
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am the Wizard. This world is mine.
I speak. It's done. My realm is fine.
My wand, my tongue. My sword, my voice.
It's good. It's bad. I speak my choice.
I say happy, or I say mad.
I say angry, or I say glad.
I name that drawing on the wall.
It's not graffiti after all.
The past has been broken. The prison's not real.
My word holds the magic - the power to heal.
Intent is my weapon - a sword from above.
Cruel hate, fear, and anger transmute into love.
This world's my joy. This mouth's my toy.
Reborn -I'm a brand new girl or boy.
I choose. I speak. My will is done.
Come join. Come play. This can be fun.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Liar is a strong word, but we are all liars.
Not in the sense of intentionally speaking untruths,
but in the sense of carrying so much historical
and emotional baggage that none of us is believable.
To lie means to speak an untruth,
and virtually everything that comes out of our mouth
is an untruth - an opinion, an assumption,
a point-of-view based on our past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will not walk in fear, one of another.
We are not descended from fearful men,
Not from men who feared to write, to speak,
To associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time... to keep silent.
- Edward R. Murrow
Training - training is everything; training is all there is to a person.
We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature;
what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.
We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own;
they are transmitted to us, trained into us.
All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable
or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden
by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms
contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors
that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam
or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been
so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
And as for me, all that I think about in this plodding sad pilgrimage,
this pathetic drift between the eternities,
is to look out and humbly live a pure and high and blameless life,
and save that one microscopic atom in me that is truly me:
the rest may land in Sheol and welcome for all I care.
- Mark Twain in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
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