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  • Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.
        Ben Harper   Best?
  • A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
        Ingrid Bergman   Best?
  • All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • When words fail, music speaks.
        Hans Christian Andersen   Best?
  • I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • When you're not looking at it, this sentence is in Spanish.
        Douglas R. Hofstadter   Best?
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
        Buddha   Best?
  • He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
        Confucious   Best?
  • Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
        Mary Anne Radmacher   Best?
  • A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
        Jason Mraz   Best?
  • Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.
        Victor Hugo   Best?
  • They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
        Simonides   Best?
  • In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  • Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
        Arab Proverb   Best?
  • The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
        George Will   Best?
  • A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
        Unknown   Best?
  • During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
        George Carlin   Best?
  • Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
        Unknown   Best?
  • How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • Better the foot slip than the tongue.
        French Proverb   Best?
  • In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
        Robert Fulghum   Best?
  • Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
        Christopher Fry   Best?
  • People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Use soft words and hard arguments.
        English Proverb   Best?
  • [T]he best of us must sometimes eat our words.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?

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