Slow Lent

Start slow and taper off. - Walt Stack

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

A spotless house is a sign of a misspent life. - Unknown

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. - John Wayne

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. - Benjamin Franklin

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward. - Ovid

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. - Alfred Adler

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. - Earl Wilson

A round wife and a full barn are the signs of good success. - Amish Saying

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. Drive fast and join the scenery. - Douglas Horton

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. - Frank Luntz

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. - John de Paola

My wife's an earth sign. I'm a water sign. Together we make mud. - Henny Youngman

The slow motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was traveling. - Richard Benaud

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. - Joseph Addison

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. - Aristotle

To be satisfied with yourself is a sure sign that your forward motion has stopped. - Unknown

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. - Blaise Pascal

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

I'm having difficulty getting the doctors around here to sign the appropriate form. - Spike Milligan

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. - Jerry M Wright

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Jose N Harris

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

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean. - Zach Galifianakis

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. - Billy Graham

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it. - Uday Kotak

A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. - Marya Mannes

Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in. - Jane Austen

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write well enough to sign contracts. - Hermione Gingold

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

It's a sign of age if you feel like the morning after the night before and you haven't been anywhere. - Unknown

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow. - Terrence Howard

Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. - Oscar Wilde

Pain is a sign that we are alive. Problems are a sign that we are strong. Prayer is a sign that we are not alone. - Unknown

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. - Jhumpa Lahiri

The longest word in the English language is the one following the phrase, "And now a word from our sponsor." - Hal Eaton

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. - Harriet Martineau

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis

A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed – I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself. - Georges Clemenceau

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe