Chosen Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chosen Communication Ought Speech Wells
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will. — Curt Schilling Copy Share Image
Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“You will be judged for appearance, so always dress appropriately. You will be judged for your work, so always perform exceptionally. You will be… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everyone may speak truly, but to speak logically, prudently, and adequately is a talent few possess. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not Christianity but rather the kingdom of God. ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share
I would have let you shoot me without further ado! But it is not possible to hang the German Reichsmarschall! I cannot permit this.… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
People have a whole lot more choices than they've had in the past, and I have only earned the right to be considered -… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart,… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
You'd chosen to be an upright biped on the surface of a small planet of a minor sun on the edge of a minor… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your… — Laozi Copy Share
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education. — John Conyers Copy Share Image
When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image