Quotes About Communication

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

foolish men say things in anger that they later regret and an angry tongue does not mean one is guilty.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

I will not go out with a man who wears more jewelry than me, and I'll never, ever go to bed with a guy who calls me Babe. Other than that, however, I'm real flexible.