Misattributed, Jackson's personal book of maxims
“¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?”
Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician
13 June, 2017 <br class="br">As President, 2017 <br class="br">Source: Telecinco https://www.telecinco.es/informativos/mocion-censura-mariano-rajoy-lapsus-pifias-trabalenguas-pp-partido-popular-presidente-gobierno-espana-podemos-pablo-iglesias_2_2386680191.html
“It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence.”
J. L. Austin (1911–1960) English philosopher
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 56.
“Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.”
E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
"The Raison d'Etre of Criticism in the Arts"
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning
Alternating Current (1967)
“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
“It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.”
David Sedaris book Holidays on Ice
Source: Holidays on Ice
“When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
