In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
Speak when you are spoken to.
Proverb
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
The less people think the more they talk.
Speak little and to the purpose.
Speak and the man shall be shown.
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Contraries are cured by contraries.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Frank Carson
A wicked book cannot repent.
My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
Kate Clinton
People lend only to the rich.
I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.
Jake Owen
Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing.
Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.
I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.
Sandra Cisneros
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.
Caution is the parent of safety.
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
David Crystal
When a fox preaches, take care of your geese.
There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.
If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.
One can easily judge the character of a person by the way they treat people who can do nothing for them.
Some people are born hammers, others anvils.
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
Adam Savage
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.
Never offer to teach a fish to swim.
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
He who does not research has nothing to teach.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
The longest day soon comes to an end.
Soon enough is well enough.
Now is the watchword of the wise.
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
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