| "The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts." »Rene Descartes |
| "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair |
| "The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." »Erich Fromm |
| "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein |
| "There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain |
| "There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott |
| "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain |
| "I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler |
| "More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein |
| "It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then." »Richard Willard Armour |
| "We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." »Mark Twain |
| "There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." »Michel de Montaigne |
| "Conceit causes more conversation than wit." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Your ignorance, cramps my conversation." »Sir Anthony Hawkins |
| "Silence is one great art of conversation." »Anonymous |
| "Argument is the worst sort of conversation." »Jonathan Swift |
| "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.." »Anonymous |
| "Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation." »Elizabeth Drew |
| "Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him." »Thomas Fuller |
| "Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation." »Judith Martin |
| "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." »Plato |
| "One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid." »Jonathan Swift |
| "Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
| "Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts." »Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| "A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." »Chinese Proverb |
| "If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating." »Leigh Hunt |
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