"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

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Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Fall Quotes #Communication Quotes #Speak Quotes

“We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.
“Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.”

Source : "Elegies, II". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.
“I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.”
“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death”
“Women are never at ease when they have ideas.”
“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
“One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take.”
“The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?”

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