Quotes of Speechless - somelinesforyou

“ Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ”

- Solomon Short

“ Beauty fades; dumb is forever. ”

- Judge Judy

“ Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. ”

- James Baldwin

“ I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. ”

- Eugene McCarthy

“ Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men. ”

- Marcus Valerius Martial

“ I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you. ”

- Sophia Loren

“ I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ One good deed, dying tongueless, Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ My greatest weapon is mute prayer. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless. ”

- Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker

“ Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. ”

- Orson Welles

“ All history... is an inarticulate Bible. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant. ”

- Unknown

“ Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb. ”

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“ A kind Of excellent dumb discourse. - The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing. ”

- Bruce Paltrow

“ Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer. ”

- Lee Ryan

“ I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life. ”

- Jet Li

“ Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Discipline must come through liberty… . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. ”

- Maria Montessori

“ Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was… ”

- Helen Keller

“ For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions — largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ”

- George Washington
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