Quotes About Engagement

Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Man is a social animal.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

We never touch but at points.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world - as far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.