Ruling On Criticism

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Impropriety is the soul of wit. - W Somerset Maugham

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

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

Children need models rather than critics. - Joseph Joubert

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. - Arabic Proverb

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt

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

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

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. - Prince

I always get the heaves in the presence of critics. - Gene Fowler

You have a ready wit. Let me know when it's ready. - Henny Youngman

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom is courage. - Carrie Jones

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. - Chen Guangcheng

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

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

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. - G K Chesterton

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. - Bernard Baruch

If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title. - Faydra D. Fields

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

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

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

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter

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

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. - Winston Churchill

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. - Karl Marx

Having insurance doesn't guarantee good health outcomes, but it is a critical factor. - Irwin Redlener

Critics search for ages for the wrong word which, to give them credit, they eventually find. - Peter Ustinov

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

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

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