(421 quotes found)
“I praise loudly, I blame softly”
Catherine the Great
“Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.”
Cher
“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.”
Carolyn Kenmore
“Now a soft kiss -- Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss”
John Keats
“Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.”
Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles”
William Blake
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
William Shakespeare
“Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet”
Pam Brown