Quotes About Communication

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.

A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand

Never write a letter while you are angry.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless.

Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool

Demiri nas?l tav?nda dövmek gerekiyorsa, çekiç darbelerini nas?l so?utmadan indirmek gerekiyorsa her kelimeyi de öyle tam zaman?nda söylemek gerekiyordu. O an? geçince söz so?uyor, kat?la??yor, insan?n yüre?ine ta? gibi oturuyor ve bu a??rl??? kald?r?p atmak hiç de kolay olmuyordu.

Living with a couple of Scots hasn't been easy, you know. Graham and Angus have made me realize that the old saw is true—it's necessary to either kill a Scot or agree with him, you have no other choice.

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

But like all the other women I have referred to, she expressed herself with passionate and disarming effrontery.

To the question of writing at all we have sometimes been counselled to forget it, or rather the writing of books. What is required, we are told, is plays and films. Books are out of date! The book is dead, long live television! One question which is not even raised let alone considered is: Who will write the drama and film scripts when the generation that can read and write has been used up?