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"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
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"Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one." »Scottish Proverb
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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." »Orson Scott Card
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"What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled." »Earl of Roscommon
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"When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so." »H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine
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"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything." »Ernest J. Gaines
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"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general." »Frederick Nietzsche
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"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
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." »Saint Augustine
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"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
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"Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." »Arabian Proverb
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"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." »Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
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"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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
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"Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of." »Jane Austen, Emma
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"LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites." »Henry Fielding
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word." »Author Unknown
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"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
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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly." »Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
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"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"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
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"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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"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." »Buddha, The Dharmapada
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"God has not any Holy Book; but Man has many Holy Book writers! Producing Holy Books is a cosmic crime against God! God has not spoken yet! He has been silent for billions of years, because He is out of this universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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