Ruling On Criticism

Freedom is from within. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Fair speech may hide a foul heart. - JRR Tolkien

When lost, freedom is difficult to regain. - Slavomir Rawicz

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

The best road to progress is freedom's road. - John F Kennedy

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

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. - Ed Howe

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant. - William Congreve

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. - Plutarch

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

Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen

This is your victory! It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. - Winston Churchill

If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright

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

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

I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one. - Winston Churchill

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

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. - William Glasser

Being a critic is easy. Complaining is easy. If you want to make a difference - find a solution. - Unknown

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

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

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Ymber Delecto

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it. - Ernest Hemingway

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

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

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

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

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