Chance Quote by Sydney Smith Download Open image “Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.” — Sydney Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Giving Never Others Talk
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I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly. — Chris Liddell Copy Share Image
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes… — Arthur Godfrey Copy Share Image
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Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service." — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
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I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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