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- As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.
- Author Unknown
- The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.
- Author Unknown
- We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
- Edward Dahlberg
- Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."
- Author Unknown
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