"Before you speak, make certain you have..." - Quote by Groucho Marx
Before you speak, make certain you have something worthwhile to say.
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“In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.”
“Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”
“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
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“Silence gives answers.”
“Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.”
“I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.”