It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.