A traveling salesman, seeing a farmer holding a large pig up to an apple tree to feed him an apple, stopped and asked, "Wouldn't it save a lot of time just to pick the apple and give it to the pig?" Replied the farmer: "What's time to a pig? —Old joke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing. —Fanny Fern More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. —Tillie Olsen, quoting her young daughter More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork. . . . They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He is invariably in a hurry — being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. —Elizabeth Bibesco More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are traveling with tremendous speed toward a star in the Milky Way. A great repose is visible on the face of the Earth. My heart's a little fast. Otherwise everything's fine. —Bertolt Brecht More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it, the better. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor silence speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God's first language is silence. Everything else is a translation. —Thomas Keating More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? —Marcel Marceau More about this quote Tags: words moment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Among the sages whom [Ralph Waldo] Emerson sought out on his visit to Europe was the notoriously reticent and difficult Thomas Carlyle. He called on Carlyle one evening and was given a pipe, while his host took one himself. They sat together smoking in perfect silence until bedtime, and on parting shook hands most cordially, congratulating each other on the fruitful time they had enjoyed together. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ask me about my vow of silence. —Bumper sticker More about this quote Tags: silence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then your low words will be charged with dynamite. —Elbert Hubbard More about this quote Tags: emotions speech quiet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk. —Victoria Wolff More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. —Sylvia Plath More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email