Quotes About Communication

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Mom says it's because she has PMS. Do you even know what that means? "I'm not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

I do think men fear female intuition.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

Women have much to tell us. Women are capable of seeing things in a different angle. Women can pose questions that we men cannot understand.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.