Mediocrates

Be not a slave of words. - Thomas Carlyle

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Fine words do not produce food. - Nigeria Proverb

If: A two-letter word for futility - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

Silence is more eloquent than words. - Thomas Carlyle

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

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait. - Jose Simon

I am disappointment in you're grammar. - Unknown

Sooner or later, we all quote our mothers. - Unknown

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers

A flow of words does not mean a flow of wisdom. - Rosalind Ferguson

One picture is worth more than a thousand words. - Chinese Proverb

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe. - Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of my success is a two-word answer: Know people. - Harvey S Firestone

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. - Jose Saramago

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

Today's comics use 4-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. - Red Skelton

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair. - Keith Richards

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower. - Bruce Feirstein

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

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. - Benjamin Franklin

If you won't give me your word of honor, will you give me your promise? - Samuel Goldwyn

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. - Malcolm Muggeridge

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. - Havelock Ellis

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. - Al Capone

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

Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. - Elbert Hubbard

The number one job facing the middle class... a three-letter word, jobs, J-O-B-S. - Joe Biden

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. - William Faulkner

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. - Margaret Mead

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

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

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective, and valuable than words. - Francois Rabelais

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

The educated Southerner has no use for an "R", except at the beginning of a word. - Mark Twain

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

Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Unknown

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. - Frederick Crane

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

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words, how wonderful life is while you're in the world. - Bernie Taupin

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth. - Gary Vaynerchuk

Not to mince words, Mr. Epstein, we don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitarists are on the way out. - Brian Epstein

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. - Paul Simon

It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams... through it, God will spread his word. - Johannes Gutenberg

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee. - George Bernard Shaw

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft

To read means to obtain meaning from words, and legibility is that quality which enables words to be read easily, quickly, and accurately. - John C Tarr

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe