When you kiss me, without uttering a single word, you speak to my soul.
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. Lao Tzu
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Voltaire (hmmm?)
Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. Ben Franklin
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party. Oscar Wilde
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. Alfred North Whitehead
When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henry Nouwen
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. St. Jerome
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. German Proverb
Too soon old, too late smart. German Proverb
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato
When your heart speaks, take good notes. Judith Campbell
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus
I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting.
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. Jean Kerr quotes
Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others. German Proverb
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry W. Longfellow
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. Ludwig van Beethoven
Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once. Turkish Proverb
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The inarticulate speak longest. Japanese Proverb
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. Mother Teresa
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. Mother Teresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand. Mother Teresa
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
St. Augustine
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. Mitch Radcliffe
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be cool with people even if they are not to you. You will look better in the long run. Sebastian Burns
We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about. Werner Erhard
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be...whether they'll admit that or not. William James
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. Red Cloud, Sioux Chief
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Stephen Covey
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. Aristotle
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. Aristotle
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. Aristotle
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. Aristotle
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. Aristotle
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages. Francis Wayland
The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked. Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
Don't make excuses--make good. Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard
A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard
Everything comes too late for those who only wait. Elbert Hubbard
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much. Elbert Hubbard
From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Samuel Butler
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every noble activity makes room for itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little integrity is better than any career. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson
No man ever yet became great by imitation. Samuel Johnson
The future is purchased by the present. Samuel Johnson
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. Samuel Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent. Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. English Proverb
No man is wise enough by himself. Plautus
Ability is useless unless it's used. Robert Half
Ability is a poor man's wealth. Matthew Wren
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. Henry David Theoreau
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else. Peter Thompson
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. Henry David Theoreau
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
Most luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensible, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau
The search for someone to blame is always successful. Robert Half
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past? Robert Half
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect. Robert Half
Persistance is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite. Robert Half
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do. Robert Half
Immaturity can last a lifetime. Robert Half
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
He who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. Winston Churchill
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Winston Churchill
The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. Napoleon Bonaparte
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. William Penn
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Mabel Newcomber
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson
Where there is no vision, the people perish. King Solomon
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. William Dean Howell
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Malcom Forbes
Sometimes what a man escapes to is worse than what he escapes from. Stand Lynde
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
A half truth is a whole lie. Yiddish Proverb
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper its sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. Baltasar Gracian
As the fruit ripens, so does man mature; after many rains, suns and blows. Jose de la Luz y Caballero
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb
The best answer to anger is silence. German Proverb
Anger is really disappointed hope. Erica Jong
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Seneca
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken Orson Rega Card
Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. Lao Tzu
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Voltaire (hmmm?)
Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy. Ben Franklin
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party. Oscar Wilde
Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. Alfred North Whitehead
When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henry Nouwen
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. St. Jerome
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. German Proverb
Too soon old, too late smart. German Proverb
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato
When your heart speaks, take good notes. Judith Campbell
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus
I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting.
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. Jean Kerr quotes
Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others. German Proverb
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. Henry W. Longfellow
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. Ludwig van Beethoven
Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once. Turkish Proverb
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The inarticulate speak longest. Japanese Proverb
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. Confucius
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Teresa
It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. Mother Teresa
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. Mother Teresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. Mother Teresa
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand. Mother Teresa
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
St. Augustine
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
Elbert Hubbard
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. Mitch Radcliffe
The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be cool with people even if they are not to you. You will look better in the long run. Sebastian Burns
We can choose to make our love for each other what our lives are really about. Werner Erhard
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be...whether they'll admit that or not. William James
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. Red Cloud, Sioux Chief
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Stephen Covey
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. Aristotle
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. Aristotle
The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to. Aristotle
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. Aristotle
There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. Aristotle
Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. Aristotle
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill. Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages. Francis Wayland
The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked. Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
Don't make excuses--make good. Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard
A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. Elbert Hubbard
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard
Everything comes too late for those who only wait. Elbert Hubbard
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. Elbert Hubbard
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard
What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much. Elbert Hubbard
From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. Samuel Butler
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every noble activity makes room for itself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The revelation of thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little integrity is better than any career. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson
No man ever yet became great by imitation. Samuel Johnson
The future is purchased by the present. Samuel Johnson
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. Samuel Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent. Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. English Proverb
No man is wise enough by himself. Plautus
Ability is useless unless it's used. Robert Half
Ability is a poor man's wealth. Matthew Wren
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. Henry David Theoreau
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else. Peter Thompson
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. Henry David Theoreau
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
Most luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only indispensible, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. Henry David Thoreau
The search for someone to blame is always successful. Robert Half
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past? Robert Half
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect. Robert Half
Persistance is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite. Robert Half
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do. Robert Half
Immaturity can last a lifetime. Robert Half
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
He who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. Winston Churchill
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Winston Churchill
The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. Napoleon Bonaparte
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. Joseph Joubert
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. William Penn
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Mabel Newcomber
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Bergson
Where there is no vision, the people perish. King Solomon
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. William Dean Howell
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Malcom Forbes
Sometimes what a man escapes to is worse than what he escapes from. Stand Lynde
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
A half truth is a whole lie. Yiddish Proverb
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper its sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. Baltasar Gracian
As the fruit ripens, so does man mature; after many rains, suns and blows. Jose de la Luz y Caballero
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Chinese Proverb
The best answer to anger is silence. German Proverb
Anger is really disappointed hope. Erica Jong
The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Seneca
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken Orson Rega Card
