Learn Through Quotations

“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.”

“Women like silent men. They think they're listening.”

“If you love someone tell them... because hearts are often broken by words left unspoken.”

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

“Language is the dress of thought.”

“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”

“In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.”

“Music is the universal language of mankind - poetry their universal pastime and delight.”

“'What's for dinner?' is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.”

“A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”

“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.”

“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.”

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”

“Hearing is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art.”

“If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”

“We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.”

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It's a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you're hurt.”

“Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.”

“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”

“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”

“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”

“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”