| "A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." »John Locke |
| "You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body." »Juvenal |
| "I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer." »Leonard Bernstein |
| "Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting." »Maxims of Ptahhotep |
| "The sound of fresh rain run-off splashing from the roof reminded me of the sound of urine splashing into a filthy Texaco latrine." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another." »Sophocles |
| "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." »David Mamet |
| "After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone." »Henry Bromel |
| "Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu |
| "Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles." »Brooks Hays |
| "As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech." »Rowan Atkinson |
| "What is the sound of one hand clapping" »Confucius |
| "The sound of life has divine silence." »Kedar Joshi |
| "I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence." »Margaret Halsey |
| "A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key." »Paul Valery |
| "See the conquering hero comes sound the trumpets, beat the drums" »Thomas Morell |
| "When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes." »John Shedd |
| "Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." »Elizabeth Goudge |
| "Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light." »C. V. R. Thompson |
| "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." »Douglas Adams |
| "When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One - the inner sound which kills the outer." »H Hahn Blavatsky |
| "True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." »William Shakespeare |
| "I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit." »Mario M Cuomo |
| "The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound." »Pat Elphinstone |
| "An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling." »Donald Sinden |
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