Acceptable Quote by Alain de Botton

Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children learn from example. So ask yourself, do I want my child to act and talk like me? If the answer is no, it's…

— Anonymous

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

— Joseph Addison

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

— Miller Williams

“So hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do,…

— Virginia Woolf

It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by…

— Eric Linklater

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

— Stephen Leacock

I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary…

— Plato

We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to…

— R. A. Torrey

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

— Alan Cohen

No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us…

— Matt Chandler