"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."

-- Cato the Elder

#Anger Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“Have high regard for yourself. Be your own best friend.”
“Agony without genius was gaucherie.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Mysteries of Motion: A Novel”, p.261, Open Road Media
“The world changes when there's music in it.”
“My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.”
“I think that DDT holds a lot of promise. It hasn't been banned everywhere - obviously it has in the U.S. In fact, about 10 years ago, the WHO came out with a statement promoting it for public health interventions in many countries. It's cheap. It's very, very effective. We've never had an insecticide that has worked so well since. It's also safe. A lot of people don't realize that its toxicity profile for humans is low.”

Source : "Attention Turns To Repelling Mosquitoes That Carry Zika, Dengue". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. February 2, 2016.
“Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.”
“I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.”
“God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.”

Source : Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

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