“The child speaks words with his memory long before he speaks them with his tongue.”

“The tongues of conscience need a conscience of their own to keep them from speaking before they know what they are talking about.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

“He who disdained not to assume us unto Himself, did not disdain to take our place and speak our words, in order that we might speak His words.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”

Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian

“The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as his English ruler, is entirely without basis in fact, and the little dark native lives amid the monuments of a departed grandeur, professing the religion and speaking the tongue of his long forgotten Nordic conquerors, without the slightest claim to blood kinship.”

Madison Grant book The Passing of the Great Race

“When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue."”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

“1953. Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Properly speaking, man inhabits only his head and his heart. All other places are vainly before his eyes, at his sides, and under his feet: he himself is not there at all.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment