Ain't Peter's Place

Humor is a universal language. - Joel Goodman

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost

Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Francis Bacon

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. - Charles de Talleyrand

Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch

Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. - Robert Greenleaf

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

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain

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

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary. - Unknown

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. - Gail Godwin

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. - Brennan Manning

The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

Language: The blood of the soul into which thoughts run, and out of which they grow - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

I want flowers, I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? - Jennifer Garner

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747. - Willy Rushton

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

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

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

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. - Harold S Geneen

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a 'nervous system', to coordinate its actions. - Bill Gates