Quotations On Conversations (1)

QUOTATIONS ON CONVERSATIONS 11. “If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen.” —Jacob Trapp (1899–1992) American religious leader 1. “Courtesy costs nothing.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American writer, philosopher 2. “Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.” —The Bible 3. “You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” —Proverb 4. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” —Chinese proverb 5. “We learn by doing.” —English proverb 6. “The secret of education is respecting the pupil.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American poet, philosopher 7. “It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion which makes horse races.” —Mark Twain (1835–1910), American writer 8. “I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” —James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist 9. “Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the conversation.” —Dwight MacDonald (1906–1982), American editor 10. “Speech is civilization itself...It is silence which isolates.” —Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German writer

12. “Argument is the worst form of conversation.” —Jonathon Swift (1667–1745), English writer, satirist 13. “People have one thing in common: they are all different.” —Robert Zend (1929–1985), American writer 14. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), 26th U.S. President 15. “Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.” —John Wayne (1907–1979), American actor 16. “Keep it light, bright and polite.” —English proverb 17. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.” —Erich Fromm (1900–1980), psychologist 18. “There is only one beautiful child in the world, and each mother has that one.” —Latin American proverb 19. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), French-American author 20. “Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.” —Octavio Paz, (1914–1998), Mexican writer, Nobel Prize winner