Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai Stevenson 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
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. – Winston Churchill Category: Speaking
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. – Ben Jonson Category: Speaking
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. – Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris, 1935 Category: Perspective
The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. – Joseph Addison Category: Knowledge
