Quotes about Speaking

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut … We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?

You have one mouth and two ears. You should listen twice as much as you speak.

The fool speaks because he has to say something, but the wise speaks because he has something to say.

Nie wystarczy mowic do rzeczy, trzeba mowic do ludzi.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;

And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.