#speak

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#answer #ask #before #going #helpful

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. ↗

— Herman Melville

#awful #beneath #gently #hidden #knows

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #assume #before #fool #man

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#bad #because #detest #go #i

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. ↗

— David Miliband

#hebrew #history #i #i do #memory

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. ↗

— Henry Miller

#does #good #gratuitous #letter #like

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#belief #believe #faith #free #must

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in. ↗

— Merton Miller

#believe #constantly #course #economists #i

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#belonging #entirely #feeling #hostage #me

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else. ↗

— Joe Murray

#ask #else #how #i #make