Ruling On Criticism

Freedom is from within. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is like oxygen. - Slavomir Rawicz

Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare

Silence is the wit of fools. - Anatole France

Impropriety is the soul of wit. - W Somerset Maugham

A pun is the lowest form of wit. - John Dennis

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

When lost, freedom is difficult to regain. - Slavomir Rawicz

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit. - Karl W.F. Schlegel

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene

The best road to progress is freedom's road. - John F Kennedy

Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. - Warwick Davis

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. - Andrew Goodman

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. - G K Chesterton

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - J Krishnamurti

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. - Will Durant

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. - Jack Vance

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. - Thomas Paine

The man who sees the consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist. - G K Chesterton

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch, and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. - Aldous Huxley

Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. - C S Lewis

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas