One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. – Frank Sheed Category: Speaking
Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes… – George Eliot, “Borne Along by the Tide,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860 Category: Speaking
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon Category: Speaking
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: good
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. – Oscar Wilde Category: Forgiveness
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light wont come in. – Alan Alda Category: Assumptions