"Things are often spoke and seldom meant."
— William Shakespeare
"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
— Demosthenes
"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."
— Arab Proverb
"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
— Demosthenes
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
"How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us."
— William Shakespeare
"Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few."
— Moralia
"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
— William Shakespeare
"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
— Jean Cocteau
"Talkers are no good doers; be assur’d we come to use our hands and not our tongues."
— William Shakespeare
