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  • Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • ...but what courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
        Washington Irving   Best?
  • A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
        Russian proverb   Best?
  • A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words.
        Russian proverb   Best?
  • A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
        Lenny Bruce   Best?
  • Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
        Abdul Baha   Best?
  • The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
        George Bush Sr.   Best?
  • Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
        Maurice Setter   Best?
  • Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
        Jane Adams   Best?
  • Weird, isn't it? Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
        Bob Marley   Best?
  • Fashion changes, style remains.
        Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel   Best?
  • Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
        Milan Kundera   Best?
  • Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
        Alfred Tennyson   Best?
  • The body says what words cannot.
        Martha Graham   Best?
  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
        American Indian Proverb   Best?
  • Envy is what makes you, when an aquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, "Which one, Hades?
        Regina Barreca   Best?
  • Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
        Arabian Proverb   Best?
  • God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
        Pablo Picasso   Best?
  • Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
        Amos Bronson Alcott   Best?
  • Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
        James A. Froude   Best?
  • Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
        Hermann Hesse   Best?
  • Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
        Ovid   Best?
  • As was his language so was his life.
        Seneca   Best?
  • You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
        Martha Graham   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
        Eric Gibson   Best?
  • The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
        Seneca   Best?
  • There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
        Homer   Best?
  • A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
        Homer   Best?
  • If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
        Doug Larson   Best?

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