"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."

-- Plutarch

#Silence Quotes #Speech Quotes

“I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.”
“I think the damned souls in hell must spend half their time wondering what it was that they really meant to do.”

Source : Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard Cuffari (2001). “The Perilous Gard”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“That which is the wonder of one age is the commonplace of the next.”
“If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.”
“A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.”
“Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.”
“Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age”
“The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.”

Source : Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.44, Macmillan

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