QuotaBillsSilence is safer than speech. - Epictetus
Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle
Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. - Robert Greenleaf
You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi. - Humphrey Bogart
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin
Sometimes the best communication happens when you're on separate bikes. - Unknown
The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary. - Arthur Schopenhauer
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. - Peter Drucker
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard
The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker
If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias
We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff
If it weren't for the Japanese and Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies. - Stanley Ross
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden
A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie
The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown
Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate. - Margaret Mead
Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones. - Keith Richards
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it. - John C Maxwell
More people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting. - Stephen Covey