
Speech is pulling a straw out of thatch—once out it cannot be replaced.
- Topic: Speech
- Location: Canyonlands National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
› Rumi
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
› Steve Jobs
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
› Benjamin Franklin
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
› Nikola Tesla
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
› Plutarch
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
› Thomas Sowell
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
› Pindar
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
› James Allen
