Quotes About Communication

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

"What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something.

No quieres entender que para ser algo en esta vida se necesita más labia que saber. ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¿Qué ganas con estudiar? ¡Nada!

El trabajo del novelista es hacer visible lo invisible con palabras.

Pero la tercera generación es la encargada de hablar por todos, por los vivos y por los enterrados.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Little said is soonest mended.

The eyes those silent tongues of love.