When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you. read more

• Thought Save Skin from Corrosive Acids Mouths Toxic People Someone Helped Speak Evil About Another Person Later Help

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. read more

• Thought Crime Retail Department What Wholesale Call Penal Law

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. read more

• Thought Great Thing Done by Person They Do Without Effort

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the natures of things. read more

• Thought What Signifies Knowing Names Natures Things

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things read more

• Knowledge Motivational Experience Self-motivation Woman Beginning Great Things

A tendancy to melancholy let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. read more

• Thought Tendancy Melancholy Let Observed Misfortune Fault

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. read more

• Experience Look for Bad People Expecting Find Surely

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. read more

• Thought Better Remain Silent Thought Fool Speak Remove Doubt

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. read more

• Knowledge Experience Best Way Destroy Enemy Friend

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. read more

• Experience Promise What Ought Lest Called Perform Cannot