No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.


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No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
AUSONIUS
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.
AUSONIUS
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
PROVERB
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding
GERMAN PROVERB
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
AUSONIUS
Truth is the mother of hatred.
AUSONIUS
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
AUSONIUS
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
AUSONIUS
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
AUSONIUS
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
AUSONIUS
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
AUSONIUS
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
AUSONIUS
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
AUSONIUS
Nemo bonus Brito est
No good man is a Briton
AUSONIUS
Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man
AUSONIUS
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many thing...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
OLIVER HERFORD
No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
CHARLES SIMMONS
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Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.
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Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.
UNKNOWN
Please show me a man that has not been manipulated by a woman
SOTONYE ANGA
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DAVID BASS
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, mak...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I think that's what we all want, in the end.
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Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, ho...
JOHANNES TAULER
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how...
JOHANNES TAULER
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be plea...
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Venezuela is speaking with its silence.
JULIO BORGES
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EPICTETUS
He's going to be speaking to a constituency that's been demonized by many extremists in the Muslim w...
JACK ROSEN
Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
PROVERB
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
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AUGUST WILSON
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE
Silence is also a form of speaking.
HERTA MüLLER
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidq...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas....
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. [Lat., Turpe quid ...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS
If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, ca...
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Silence is the best reply to those who provoke you. Smile is like icing on the cake.
SARU SINGHAL
What is beauty? why do we admire it? why do we endeavor to create it? [...]
[B]eauty is any qua...
WILL DURANT
Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentione...
MICHAEL FINKEL
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLE
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she be...
SOPHIE HANNAH
Many people believe that they are attracted by God or by nature, when they are only repelled by man.
W. R. INGE
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking
MOORISH PROVERB
Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking.
MOORISH PROVERB
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO
I sat by the river and silence heard my thoughts.
SIR KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIP BROOKS
No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of natur...
HELEN KELLER
How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of t...
ZOë MARRIOTT
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
SUSAN GRIFFIN
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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If one wants to enervate the enthusiasm of talent in any company, then he should be made to report t...
ANUJ SOMANY
Nothing comes instantly.
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Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in thi...
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Today, another Day, and a Opportunity for to be Amazing
JAN JANSEN
If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still...
SAAIF ALAM
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset b...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset b...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
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THOMAS MANN
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and co...
PANKAJ MISHRA
Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
No man is hurt but by himself.
DIOGENES
No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS
No man is hurt but by himself
DIOGENES
No man was ever great by imitation.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
No man was ever wise by chance.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
No man is wise enough by himself.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
No man is demolished but by himself.
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If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
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It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas....
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A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat...
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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. [Lat., Turpe quid ...
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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, ca...
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