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[Quote No.13546] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Every man has three characters--that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. [Likewise in communication - people exhibit one thing, are another, and think themselves yet another.]" - Alphonse Karr
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[Quote No.13547] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it." - Sir William Temple
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[Quote No.13558] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good
health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature." - Charles Kingsley
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[Quote No.13559] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"...it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness, that the former may not
imbue our minds with melancholy, nor the latter degenerate into licentiousness." - Pliny
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[Quote No.13561] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Don't judge a book by its cover...which these days is designed to appeal, especially so when the contents are poor. [Try to judge if people are good rather than if they just appear good. If you have any doubt, avoid them, because your life is too precious to waste time and effort on people that aren't good.]" - Anonymous
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[Quote No.13562] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy." - L.M. Child
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[Quote No.13563] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it." - J. T. Fields
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[Quote No.13564] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"We go and fancy that everybody is thinking of us. But he is not; he is like us--he is thinking of himself." - Charles Reade
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[Quote No.13565] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"The integrity [and morality] of men [and women] is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions." - Junius
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[Quote No.13566] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Have more than thou showest;
Speak less than thou knowest." - William Shakespeare
in 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
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[Quote No.13567] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Trust not him that hath once broken faith; he who betrayed thee once, will betray thee again." - William Shakespeare
in'Henry VI'
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[Quote No.13569] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything." - Laurence Sterne
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[Quote No.13577] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Speak little and well if you wish to be considered as possessing merit." - French Saying
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[Quote No.13578] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of man." - Johann Kaspar Lavater
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[Quote No.13579] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not." - Charles Caleb Colton
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[Quote No.13580] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"It is offending... to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm... of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating." - Jean de la Bruyere
(1645 - 1696), French author
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[Quote No.13581] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him." - Richard Steele
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[Quote No.13582] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"In my whole life I have only known ten or twelve persons with whom it was pleasant to speak--i.e. who keep to the subject, do not repeat themselves, and do not talk of themselves; men who do not listen to their own voice, who are cultivated enough not to lose themselves in
commonplaces, and, lastly, who possess tact and good taste enough not to elevate their own persons above their subjects." - Prince Klemens von Metternich
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[Quote No.13584] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Many things are too delicate...to be spoken." - Novalis
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[Quote No.13593] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Our life is full of discord; but by forbearance and virtue this same discord can be turned to harmony." - James Ellis
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[Quote No.13594] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion." - Joseph Addison
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[Quote No.13602] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed, his praises never." - Michel de Montaigne
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[Quote No.13615] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"To get along (with people), go along (with their desires)....be agreeable." - English Saying
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[Quote No.13625] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Surely he is not a fool that hath unwise thoughts, but he that utters them." - Bishop Hall
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[Quote No.13626] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"None but a fool is always right." - Augustus William Hare
English clergyman and writer (1792 - 1834)
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[Quote No.13688] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
" - J. Beaumont
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[Quote No.13689] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Be prudent, and if you hear...some insult or threat...have the appearance of not hearing it." - George Sand
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[Quote No.13690] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"They are the strong ones of the earth...those who know how to keep silence when it is a pain and a grief to them..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.13691] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle." - John Ruskin
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[Quote No.13692] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"But hushed be every thought that springs,
From out the bitterness of things." - William Wordsworth
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[Quote No.13693] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"A fool's heart is in his tongue; but a wise man's tongue is in his heart. " - Francis Quarles
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[Quote No.13696] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised." - James Russell Lowell
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[Quote No.13699] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into trouble." - Frank Tyger
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[Quote No.13703] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Patience and gentleness is power." - Leigh Hunt
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[Quote No.13704] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult." - Bible, Proverbs 12:16
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[Quote No.13705] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and 'tells neither father nor mother of it'.[living in silent modesty]" - Johann Kaspar Lavater
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[Quote No.13707] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"If the internal griefs of every man [and woman] could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy [and anger] would appear to be the objects of pity [and compassion]?" - Metastasio
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[Quote No.13710] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, is required to set up in the grumbling business; but those who are moved by a genuine desire to do good have little time for murmuring or complaint." - Robert West
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[Quote No.44791] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Freedom of thought, opinion, speech, expression, press and censorship:] There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth [and so they try to curtail hearing it and having it spread through censorship]." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
British politician, poet, playwright and novelist.
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[Quote No.13718] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Who is the happiest [and best liked] of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.[Be happy to hear of others pleasure as well as sad for their pain. Have empathy, sympathy and compassion.]" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[Quote No.13720] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.13724] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead." - Charles M Schwab
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[Quote No.13732] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Men are like steel. when they lose their temper, they lose their worth." - Chuck Norris
(1940-)
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[Quote No.13738] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." - Bible, Matthew 12:34
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[Quote No.13757] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"True humility [modesty] is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues." - Edmund Burke
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[Quote No.13759] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"[Humility:] The grace which makes every other grace amiable." - Alfred Mercier
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[Quote No.13775] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"There is but one thing without honor, smitten with
eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be, insincerity..." - Thomas Carlyle
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[Quote No.13777] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others." - Fulke Greville
1st Baron Brooke
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[Quote No.13793] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[Quote No.13794] Need Area: Friends > Conversation
"Men [and women] are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works. [many a less-than-good person looks good while many a good person looks less-than-good]
" - Sir Roger L’Estrange.
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