Ruling On Criticism

Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

When the wine is in, the wit is out. - English Proverb

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

Nothing is more important than independence and freedom. - Ho Chi Minh

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost

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

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. - Robert Frost

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom. - William Wallace

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. - Aesop

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. - Leonard Nimoy

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

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

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

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom. - Michael Adams

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

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. - Kemal Ataturk

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. - Noel Coward

Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

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

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. - Ambrose Bierce

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

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

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln

When we criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. - Richard Carlson

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. - John Adams

A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. - Newt Gingrich

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. - Indira Gandhi

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas