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"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse." »William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse." »John Locke
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"Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Sir Francis Bacon, O Magazine, April 2003
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"Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Francis Bacon
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"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality they discourse like angels, but they live like men." »Samuel Johnson
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"The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever." »Virginia
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"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness." »Helen Keller
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"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse." »Henry Tuckerman
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"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." »Izaak Walton
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"If with a stranger thou discourse, first learn, By strictest observation, to discern If he be wiser than thyself, if so, Be dumb, and rather choose by him to know; But if thyself perchance the wiser be, Then do thou speak, that he may learn by thee." »Randolph
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"Seven things characterise the wise man, and seven the blockhead. The wise man speaks not before those who are his superiors, either in age or wisdom. He interrupts not others in the midst of their discourse. He replies not hastily. His questions are relevant to the subject, his answers, to the purpose. In delivering his sentiments he taketh the first in order first, the last, last. What he understands not he says, ?I understand not.? He acknowledges his error, and is open to conviction. The reverse of all this characterises the blockhead." »The Talmud
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