“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Encyclopaedia Americana (1832) Vol. X, p. 445 edited by Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, and Thomas Gamaliel Bradford
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As quoted in Encyclopaedia Americana (1832) Vol. X, p. 445 edited by Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, and Thomas Gamaliel Bradford
“There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips book It Had to Be You
Source: It Had to Be You
“That day was turning out to be longer than”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“Never say more than is necessary.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act II, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“Better alone than badly accompanied.”
Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City
Source: Sex and the City
“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
Sharon Kay Penman (1945) American historical novelist