The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Joe Ancis
Thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a
hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a
man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou
hast hazel eyes; what eye but such an eye, would spy out
such a quarrel? Thy head is full of quarrels, as an egg is full of meat.
Shakespeare
A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill, requires only our silence,
which costs us nothing.
Tillotson
Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.
Sidney
O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It was frae mony a blunder free us,
And foolish notion.
Burns
Open your purse and your mouth cautiously; and your
stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
Zimmerman
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Bacon
Immodest words admit of no defense
For want of decency is want of sense.
Earl of Roscommon
Fie! what a spendthrift he is of his tongue!
Shakespeare
Ill seemes (say'd he) if he so valiant be,
That he would be so sterne to stranger wight;
For seldom yet did living creature see
That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
Spenser
That best portion of a man's good life
His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of
love.
Wordsworth
The drying up a single tear has more
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Byron
Honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
Shakespeare
That inexhaustible good nature, which is itself the most
precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled
sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable
in the roughest weather.
Irving
Great souls by instinct to each other turn,
Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Addison
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness
of which all mankind are agreed.
Cicero
