(1519 quotes found)
“I can speak French but I cannot understand it.”
Mark Twain
“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
“Say as you think and speak it from your souls.”
William Shakespeare
“Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.”
Bernard Meltzer
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“Speak low, if you speak love.”
“If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''”
Napoleon Hill
“It's not easy to undo what's done, or to speak too freely ,to just anyone, and if this takes more, than you bargained for, boy it's time you learned, not to talk so loud, walk so proud, you're coming on.”
Bonnie Raitt
“Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
Confucius
