Does a man speak foolishly?-suffer him gladly, for you are wise.
Does he speak erroneously?-stop such a man's mouth with sound words
that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?-rejoice in the truth.
-- Oliver Cromwell
Does he speak erroneously?-stop such a man's mouth with sound words
that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?-rejoice in the truth.
-- Oliver Cromwell
Related:
- A man cannot speak but he judges himself..
no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has... - When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to thee,
look on his mouth. -- Ben... - He who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know.
- Lao... - He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao... - To speak kindly does not hurt the
tongue... - BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find
you.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's... - He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent...Loudness is impotence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) "Aphorisms on Man"... - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,
And did he stop and speak to you,
And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems... - Then a man said: Speak to us of Expectations.
He then said:
If a man does not see or hear the waters of the Jordan...
