Speak Wisely Quotes

#1. Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

Vance Havner

#2. The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare

#3. In acting, quite a lot of the time you're not the first choice. Usually, you're second or third. And it can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. You get used to that.

Sylvester McCoy

#4. I'm not 'stubborn.'"

"Oh, really?"

Lifting my chin, I said, "I'm determined." (Violet to Doc)

Ann Charles

#5. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,
Perplexed in the extreme ...

William Shakespeare

#6. Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

Fanny Fern

#7. Nothing says I love you like a pre- lubricated butthole.

Nick Pageant

#8. It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.

Soul Dancer

#10. Go now, and die in what way seems best to you.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Amit Ray

#12. Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

Confucius

#13. Someone has wisely stated that hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is. We will not have time for apathy in life's journey if we speak and think positively. Seek, search, and work for worthy eternal qualities and friends.

Marvin J. Ashton

#14. When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#15. Your body falling through space touches the deepest part of me.

Yoko Ogawa

#16. When we change, our environment also has to change so as to be in alignment with what we are.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#17. The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought

William Shakespeare

#19. I judge wisely ... as if nothin ever surprise me,
Loungin, between two pillars of ivory.
I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece.
My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.

Killah Priest

#20. Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

Robert G. Allen