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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.: Robert Fripp
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.: Tom Blair
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Results of search for Quote: p - Page 199 of 1331 Showing results 1981 to 1990 of 13306 total quotations found.