Ruling On Criticism

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Silence is the wit of fools. - Anatole France

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Children need models rather than critics. - Joseph Joubert

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. - Ovid

It's easier to be a critic than an author. - Yiddish proverb

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. - Malcolm X

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. - Mark Twain

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no such thing as part freedom: it is all or nothing. - Nelson Mandela

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do. - Warwick Davis

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman

Once a man has tasted freedom, he will never be content to be a slave. - Walt Disney

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. - Gerald F Lieberman

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true. - Buddha

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle

We have within us an extraordinary capacity for love, joy, and unshakable freedom. - Jack Kornfield

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. - Bertrand Russell

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit. - Dana Perino

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. - Robert Kennedy

The trouble with many critics is that they tell you what should be in situations they never have been in themselves. - Unknown

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. - Jerry Seinfeld

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Jonathan Swift

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato

Doing and saying the right thing are not sufficient. Doing the right thing in the right way and with the person's comfort in mind is critical. - Ravi Zacharias

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. - Viktor Frankl