“Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.”
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Sam Levenson 11
American journalist 1911–1980Related quotes
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
La verdadera unidad de los matrimonios y aun de las parejas la traen las palabras, más que las palabras dichas—dichas voluntariamente—, las palabras que no se callan—que no se callan sin que nuestra voluntad intervenga—.
Source: Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White] (1992), p. 132
“Our Lord the Devil's their Word, the Word Thelema, spoken of me The Beast.”
Source: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 242
“A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 561.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications
“A word in season spoken
May calm the troubled breast.”
A Word in Season, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.
He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.”
Source: Three of Diamonds