Bright People

Smart tyrants retire rich. - Voltaire

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

Wine and children speak the truth. - Greek Proverb

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. - Steven Brust

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

Luminary: One who throws light upon a subject - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

Light Sleeper: Someone who naps on the chandelier - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed

I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love. - Flying Lotus

Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King Jr.

My mind works like lightning; one brilliant flash and it's gone. - Unknown

Stay the course, light a star, change the world where'er you are. - Richard Le Gallienne

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy. - Christopher Monckton

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match. - Unknown

Any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. - John Steinbeck

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light. - Garth von Buchholz

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

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

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees. - Rainer M Rilke

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. - Jane Wagner

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees. - Steven Magee

We have been too long in darkness. Once already we have been in the light, and we want it again. - Alexander Dubcek

HonkoSecond: The time between the light turning green and the sound from the car horn behind you - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. - Alan Alda

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

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours. - Milton Berle

Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip

The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. - Arthur Balfour

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. - Mary Catherwood

My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light! - Edna St Vincent Millay

I hate smart sales clerks. I said to one, "What do you have in lingerie?" She says, "More than you'll ever have!" - Phyllis Diller

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari