A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Ratify: To use a spell and turn a person into a rodent - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Excite the mind and the hand will reach for the pocket. - Harry Gordon Selfridge Hot Dog: The only animal that feeds the hand that bites it - Daffynitions joe-ks.com All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand. - Emo Philips Quota: Someone who likes to report other people's speech - Daffynitions joe-ks.com We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers The English have three vegetables and two of them are cabbage. - Walter Page There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. - Richard Nixon Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. - Maxwell Maltz Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. - Max Eastman Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson This is the machine age. The only thing people do by hand is scratch themselves. - Joe Laurie The most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed". - Dorothy Parker If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence? - Ravi Zacharias Language: The blood of the soul into which thoughts run, and out of which they grow - Daffynitions joe-ks.com My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci Bad dinners go hand in hand with total depravity, while a well-fed man is already half saved. - Helen Woodward Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky For the first time, I hand-picked an 'Apprentice' cast, and I'm thrilled with the results. - Donald Trump The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. - Huey Newton Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another. - C S Lewis The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. - Lord Mancroft No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That's why I'm here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world and myself. - Unknown see also Language Section |
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