Bright People

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

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

You is kind. You is smart. You is important. - The Help

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

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle. - Goldie Hawn

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. - George Lucas

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

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To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language. - Arlene Benedict

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

The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. - Stephen Hawking

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

She may very well pass for 43 in the dusk with the light behind her! - W S Gilbert

A bright person can always think of something better to do than housework. - Ruby Lou Barnhill

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache Proverb

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

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. - Alben W Barkley

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. - Sam Rayburn

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. - Yakov Smirnoff

For those who seek it, there is inexhaustible evidence of an all-pervading intelligence. - Richard E Byrd

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. - Mother Teresa

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

Your words carry amazing power. So when you speak, make sure you uplift someone and never put them down. - Unknown

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. - William James

I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue. - Carrie Underwood

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. - Jose Martin

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions. - George Carlin

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know. - Michael B. Johnson

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. - Albert Schweitzer

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? - Linda Ellerbee

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. - Spike Milligan

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times. - Mario Batall