(1274 quotes found)
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman
“This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.”
Buddha
“Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”
Winston Churchill
“I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence”
Publilius Syrus
“Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Silence is golden; speech is silver”
American Proverb
“The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.”
Bill Bryson
“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech”
Edith Wharton
“It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility”
Joseph Conrad
“Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.”
Thomas Carlyle
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