| "Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering |
| "The course of true anything does not run smooth." »Samuel Butler |
| "The course of true love never did run smooth." »William Shakespeare |
| "Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors." »African Proverb |
| "The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way." »Virgil |
| "For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth." »William Shakespeare |
| "Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one." »Scottish Proverb |
| "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." »Orson Scott Card |
| "When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so." »H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| "Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything." »Ernest J. Gaines |
| "Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine |
| "The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies." »John Dryden |
| "Billy Shampoo is better. I go on first and clean the hair. Conditioner is better. I leave the hair silky and smooth. Oh, really, fool Really." »Billy Madison |
| "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." »Washington Irving |
| "A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." »Saint Augustine |
| "Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least." »Jane Welsh Carlyle |
| "How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right." »Black Hawk |
| "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket |
| "The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously." »Paul Wiener |
| "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." »Winston Churchill |
| "O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken" »Sir Walter Scott |
| "There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success." »George Burton Adams |
| "Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God." »Jean Valjean |
| "Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies." »Edgar Watson Howe |
| "Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Do not speak harshly to any one those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful blows for blows will touch thee." »The Dhammapada |
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