Top 100 Do Not Say Quotes
#1. Alan! How many more times do I have to tell you? We do not say "see you soon" to customers when they leave our shop. We say "goodbye", because they won't be coming back, ever. When will you get that into your thick head?
Jean Teule
#2. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it" - when you have it with you.
Crossway
#3. Have some sort of a private place to work in. Put up a sign to keep from being interrupted. Mine says: "Please, do not knock, do not say hello or goodbye, do not ask what's for dinner, do not disturb me unless the police or firemen have to be called."
Judith Krantz
#4. The sayers do not know and the knowers do not say.
Matthew Polly
#5. I do not say anything from jealousy.
Anna Held
#6. I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.
John F. Kennedy
#7. We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
Steve Jobs
#8. Never use the passive voice. Do not say, 'It will get done.' Say, 'I'll do it,' and then stick to a solid, unwavering deadline
Gina Barreca
#9. Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.
Augustine Of Hippo
#10. Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath Tagore
#11. Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#12. Shylock repointed his twitching, accusatory digit at his daughter. "You do not say such things in my house. You - you - you - you - " "Run along, love, it appears that Papa's been stricken with an apoplexy of the second person.
Christopher Moore
#13. I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
Albert Camus
#14. 21Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 22Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. [87] 23"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king
Anonymous
#15. Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement ... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.
Thomm Quackenbush
#16. I do not say, however, that every delusion or wandering of the mind should be called madness. Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly There
Samuel R. Delany
#17. For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.
Mother Teresa
#18. If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#19. Do not say anything harsh: what you have said will be said back to you.
Gautama Buddha
#20. I do not say words, which you want to hear.
The words just told me, to write them down.
Toba Beta
#21. People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#22. Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
#23. Do not say about anything: "I am doing that tomorrow," Unless you add: "Should God so wish! Remember your Lord whenever you might forget, and say: "perhaps my Lord will guide me even closer than this to proper behavior
Quran-Alkahf(23,24)
Anonymous
#24. A quiet man I was, and not one to provoke a quarrel, but if set upon I would fight back. I do not say this in boasting, for it was as much a part of me as the beating of my heart. It was bred in the blood-line of those from whom I come, and I could not be other than I am.
Louis L'Amour
#25. I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.
Philip Roth
#26. Sometimes we have so much to say, we cannot say it. Sometimes it's best we do not say goodbyes.
Susan Fletcher
#27. My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.
Marshall McLuhan
#28. I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel De Cervantes
#29. Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
Hillel The Elder
#30. You do not say, "I love the whole world," but when you know how to love one, you know how to love the whole. Because we do not know how to love one, our love of humanity is fictitious. When you love, there is neither one nor many: there is only love.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#32. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
#33. Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?
Dada Bhagwan
#34. Do not say (your) body is weak and so lack courage. Do not say (you) are dull-witted and cease (training). Do not say complications cause (you) to give up halfway. Do not let circumstances cause you to break off. In all things under heaven, a really determined person will find a solution.
Scott M. Rodell
#35. I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.
Amy Bloom
#37. I'm a child of the Cold War. You do not say, "Oh, my God, there are Russian planes, so I'm going to cede the field." I mean, what kind of world would we have had if the United States had done that for 60 years?
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#38. They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.
John T. Flynn
#39. If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.
Hassan Nasrallah
#40. I will lay it out in black and white, and my tale will contain more truth than the great dead histories on my father's bookshelves. For they say what happened, but not what it was like. They say what happened, but they do not say why.
Beth Underdown
#41. Do not say; 'Its' ok'. Say 'Its' good' and then it will indeed be good.
Dada Bhagwan
#42. A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.
William Stafford
#43. One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#44. Do NOT say you "can't"! You can say, "I don't want to". You can say, "I'm not willing to put forth the effort". But DO NOT say you CAN'T!
Tony Horton
#45. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.
Mitch Albom
#46. Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn't exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.
Brian Michael Bendis
#47. Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
Saint Augustine
#48. You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say
Martin Luther
#49. I always tell young people in particular, "Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s, or '60s, or '70s."
Barack Obama
#50. Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.
Chanakya
#51. Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
John Owen
#52. My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#53. Do not say, 'I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.
Jeremiah
#54. I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses ... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.
John Locke
#55. You do not say, "This is enlightenment," or "That is not right practice." Even in wrong practice, when you realize it and continue, there is right practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
#56. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
#57. Do not say I use what is mine: you use what is alien to you; the indulgent, selfish use makes what is yours something alien; that is why I call it alien good, because you use it with a hardened heart and claim that it is right, that you alone live from what is yours.
John Chrysostom
#58. I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley
#59. If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
George Bernard Shaw
#60. Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
Yasmin Mogahed
#61. When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.
Epictetus
#62. Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves."
Laozi
#63. Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Pythagoras
#64. My life is a never ending conversation of the things that people do not say
Ally Carter
#66. If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
Mark Sheppard
#67. When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept.
Aldous Huxley
#68. I do not say there were no hurts. / I say they mattered less than love.
Jane Merchant
#69. So many words to use. Oh do not say that words have a use.
Gertrude Stein
#70. It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.
Warren Farrell
#71. I do not say the mind gets informed by action, - bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties.
William Mountford
#72. Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.
Robert Hass
#73. I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.
James Otis
#74. Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah
Khalid Ibn Al-Walid
#75. Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear?
Elisabeth Elliot
#76. The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#77. You do not say someone is holy because he puts forth great ideas concerning the knowledge of God and the attributes of God.
Michael Molinos
#78. I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
T. S. Eliot
#79. Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.
Frederick Lenz
#80. Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?" ... "We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us
Isobelle Carmody
#81. I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was
terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did
most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way
through acceptance.
Elisabeth Elliot
#82. What we hide and do not say turns into another mouth that only we know.
Nayyirah Waheed
#83. Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
Audre Lorde
#84. I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.
Margot Asquith
#86. I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.
Morarji Desai
#87. Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#88. We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
Thucydides
#89. [I]n speaking about someone's character, we do not say that he is wise or comprehending, but that he is gentle or moderate.
Aristotle.
#90. We often do not say what is in our hearts," he said, "to those who are closest and most dear to us.
Mary Balogh
#93. Phil. Look what you are doing! When you say, I - I - I want to exist you alone do not say this, but everything, absolutely everything, that has only a vestige of consciousness. Consequently this desire of yours is just that which is not individual but which is common to all without distinction.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#94. Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!
Joshua
#95. Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.
Pittacus Of Mytilene
#96. Do not say things. Who you are thunders over you all the while so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
Maria Montessori
#98. Do not say such things," said the Queen. "We have today and yesterday, and we will seize tomorrow. We will have all the time in the world if we are clever enough to take it.
Jessica Khoury
#99. Yes, aiji-ma." "What is this agreement? You are most valuable when you argue, paidhi! Do not say yes to me!" "I shall most strenuously object when you are wrong, aiji-ma. You have been infallibly right at least this last hour." "Ha.
C.J. Cherryh
#100. I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have said because it alone is certain. Accept such ideas as can be accepted, with the help of your reason, after a sound inquiry. Reject the rest.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
