Popular Quotes

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare

Hear much; speak little.

- Bias

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

- Nicolas Boileau

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

- Bible

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

- Lord Byron

Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

- Thomas Carlyle

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

- Charles Churchill

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

- Benjamin Disraeli

I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.

- Benjamin Disraeli

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

- Benjamin Disraeli

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

- Homer

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

- Homer

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!

- Thomas Jefferson

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

- Samuel Johnson

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of vou!

- Bible

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

- Matthew

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

- Matthew

If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

- W. E. Norris

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

- Plato

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

- Plautus

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

- Propertius

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

- Bible

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

- Rabelais

Speak after the manner of men.

- Romans

Speech is the index of the mind.

- Seneca

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

- Voltaire