Mediocrates

A word to the wise is infuriating. - Hunter S Thompson

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. - Groucho Marx

WYMI - the all-philosophy radio station. - Mike Dugan

I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

An apology is the best way to have the last word. - Unknown

Wouldn't let 'em get in a word wedgewise. - Archie Bunker

There are tones of voices that mean more than words. - Robert Frost

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

The surest way to make a monkey out of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

Abbreviation: An inordinately long word in light of its meaning - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. - James Roy Newman

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. - Mark Twain

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. - Bertrand Russell

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. - Isaiah Berlin

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe

Academe: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. - Wendell Johnson

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. - C-3PO

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

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

Perseverance: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn

An endeavor to please elders is at the bottom of high marks and mediocre careers. - John Day Chapman

The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. - William Faulkner

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. - Josh Billings

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

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. - Bertrand Russell

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. - Patrick M.S. Blackett

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. - Unknown

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. - Moliere

The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness is too tragic for any words. - Henry James

Tasteful Words: Always use tasteful words - you never know when you’ll have to eat them - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it. - Burmese Saying

Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams. - Brad Sugars

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. - Frederick Crane

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

Nudist Colony Halloween parties are especially scary. They give the word 'moon' a new cruel meaning. - Ray Palla

Not to mince words, Mr. Epstein, we don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitarists are on the way out. - Brian Epstein

Only a genius can say these four words, four times really fast without getting tongue twisted: eye, yam, stew, peed - Unknown

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them. - Unknown

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them. - Steven Wright

Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy. - Marcus Samuelsson

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

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee. - George Bernard Shaw

Dream big - dream very big. Word hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait, and fully surrender. - Oprah Winfrey

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

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word 'Mother', and the most beautiful call is the call of 'My Mother'. - Kahlil Gibran

Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge. - Apothegm of Narda