Tom Blair Famous Quotes



"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."


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He talked with more claret than clarity.
Susan Ertz

"A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations."
I Ching

"Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex Are you able to have a woman He replied, Hush man most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master."
Sophocles

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Sextus Propertius

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
Oprah Winfrey

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann von Goethe

"Billy Sometimes I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out."
Billy Madison

We heed no instincts but our own.
Jean de La Fontaine

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.
Persian Proverb