“Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.”
Æolus, Frag. 38
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“Distrust the man who smiles before he speaks.”
Alphonse Daudet Tartarin sur les Alpes
Méfie-toi de celui qui rit avant de parler!
Tartarin sur les Alpes (1885; repr. New York: H. Holt, 1917) p. 89; Katharine Prescott Wormeley (trans.) Tartarin of Tarascon. To Which is Added Tartarin on the Alps (Boston: Little, Brown, 1900) p. 241.
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) American physicist
"Hermann Weyl and the Unity of Knowledge" http://www.weylmann.com/wheeler.shtml, American Scientist (July-August 1986) Vol. 74, pp. 366-375. Reprinted in At Home in the Universe (1993), p. 171. http://books.google.com/books?id=w9BXAAAAYAAJ&q=%22hermann+weyl+and+the+unity+of+knowledge%22#search_anchor
Rudolf Mildner (1902) Chief of the Gestapo at Katowice
To Leon Goldensohn (12 February 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
“Think twice before you speak to a friend in need”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary