Quotes About Communication

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme.

Conferences are assemblies of people who argue about how to conduct an argument and end by sending a telegram of congratulation to the minister.

A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that he either repeats himself or offers you variations on the same theme.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

Un amigo que no entiende, simplemente, no es tan bueno como uno creía

Nicolás Maduro empieza a padecer un delirio no exento de lapsus cómicos cada vez que se acerca el micrófono a la boca

There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.

It is a long time since I have had a letter from you. "There is nothing to write about," you say: well then write and let me know just this, that "there is nothing to write about," or tell me in the good old style, If you are well that's right, I am quite well. This will do for me, for it implies everything. You think I am joking? Let me assure you I am in sober earnest. Do let me know how you are; for I cannot remain ignorant any longer without growing exceedingly anxious about you. Farewell.

There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

It's a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

While in the case of his iron money, as I have explained, Lycurgus arranged for heavy weight to be matched by low value, he did the opposite for the currency of speech. Here he developed the technique of expressing a wide range of ideas in just a few, spare words.

Lycurgus, who ordered that a great piece of money should be but of an inconsiderable value, on the contrary would allow no discourse to be current which did not contain in few words a great deal of useful and curious sense.

It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.