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"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
Charles Caleb Colton
"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately."
Nicolo Machiavelli
"One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours."
Henry Kissinger
"People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
Francis Bacon
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin
"Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life."
Joseph Addison
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."
Muhammad Ali
"Slang is the language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work."
Carl Sandburg
"Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought."
Author Unknown
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."
John Andrew Holmes
"The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Those who are preoccupied with 'making a statement' usually don't have any statements worth making."
Thomas Sowell
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
Booker T. Washington
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
Martin Farquhar Tupper
"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."
Hansell B. Duckett
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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