Common Quote by Roger Ascham Download Open image “To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.” — Roger Ascham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common people Men People Speak Style Thinking Wisdom Wise
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something — Plato Copy Share Image
Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something. — Plato Copy Share Image
Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake,… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life. — John Irving Copy Share Image
