“ The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. ”
- Joyce Maynard- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 2K
“ To meet at all, one must open one's eyes to another; and there is no true conversation, no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other. ”
- Jessamyn West- Copy
- 361
“ Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. ”
- The Dhammapada- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
- 4K
“ Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 22
“ What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ”
- Earl of Roscommon- Copy
- 794
“ LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
- 986
“ O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. ”
- Rodney Dangerfield- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general. ”
- Frederick Nietzsche- Copy
- 24
“ Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
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“ A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. ”
- George Dennison Prentice- Copy
- 3.6K
“ All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared listener. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. ”
- Orson Scott Card- Copy
- 141
“ And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right. ”
- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster- Copy
- 2.7K
“ But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 130
“ Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
- 2.1K
“ God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 623
“ I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken — and to know a truth. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. ”
- Audre Lorde- Copy
- 93
“ I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also. ”
- John Bunyan- Copy
- 2.9K
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