speak quotes

• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. (Abraham Lincoln) [fool/speak]
• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. (Henry Ward Beecher) [love/speak/truth/words]
• Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [virtue/money/speak/experience]
• Listen to many, speak to a few. (William Shakespeare) [speak]
• Say as you think and speak it from your souls. (William Shakespeare) [think/speak]
• When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. (Antonin Artaud) [speak/life/life/reach]
• People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. (Francis Bacon) [people/think/speak]
• It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. (Arthur James Balfour) [enthusiasm/speak/truth]
• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. (Georges Bernanos) [punishment/knowledge/speak/faith]
• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. (William Blake) [speak/mind/willpower]
• Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. ( Napoleon I) [speak/more/silense & noise]
• To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God! (Andre Breton) [speak/god/think/god]
• An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. (Edmund Burke) [speak]
• If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? (Thomas Carlyle) [speak/truth/more]
• The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. (Willa Cather) [speak]
• Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [speak/contempt]
• They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. (Marcus Cicero) [speak/abstinence]
• Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men. (Charles Caleb Colton) [speak/truth/men]
• Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. (Anna Cummins) [speak]
• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? (Clarence Seward Darrow) [speak/english/speak]
• Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. (John Donne) [more/mail/speak]
• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. (Umberto Eco) [being/speak/speak]
• Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/willpower/speak/taste]
• The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [war/gold/speak/imagination]
• We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children. (Oriana Fallaci) [speak/sex/sex]
• I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. (Frantz Fanon) [phenomenon/language/speak/position]
• You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. () [speak]
• He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. (Benjamin Franklin) [/speak]
• Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. (Benjamin Franklin) [speak/interest]
• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [day/speak/words]
• I do not speak of what I cannot praise. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [speak]

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