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29 quotesGracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Candor
Thomas B. Aldrich
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When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
Speech
Arabian Proverb
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Truth
St. Augustine
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If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
Thoughts and Thinking
George Barzan
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Words
Orson Scott Card
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Jest
English Proverb
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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.
Friends and Friendship
English Proverb
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Critics and Criticism
Epictetus
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Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
Ambiguity
Benjamin Franklin
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Words
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
Laughter
Oliver Goldsmith
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
Truth
Greek Proverb
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Speech
Hermann Hesse
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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Speakers and Speaking
Homer
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Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
Smile
Doug Horton
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The unspoken word never does harm.
Silence
Lajos Kossuth
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Imitation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Parents and Parenting
Joyce Maynard
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Lies and Lying
Marcel Proust
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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
Gambling
Proverb
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Speak when you are spoken to.
Speakers and Speaking
Proverb
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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Words
Earl of Roscommon
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I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.
Talent
Mickey Rourke
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Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.
Painters and Painting
Simonides
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Speech
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun