The language spoken by angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,A Psalm Of Life ]
Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]
Whenever a noble deed is wrought.
Whenever is spoken a noble thought.
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Rome has spoken; the case is at an end.
That is well spoken which is well taken. [ Proverb ]
Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word. [ Carlyle ]
A word spoken in due season, how good is it? [ Bible ]
No word is ill spoken if it be not ill taken. [ Proverb ]
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoken can never be recalled. [ Roscommon ]
What should be spoken here, where our fate,
Hid within an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us? [ William Shakespeare ]
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]
Speak when you are spoken to, come when you are called. [ Proverb ]
The fewer the thoughtless words spoken, the less regret.
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. [ Addison ]
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Much is set to music that is not even worthy of being spoken. [ Beaumarchais ]
Speak when you're spoken to, and drink when you're drunken to. [ Proverb ]
Let him say what he will, men have spoken well of God before now. [ Proverb ]
I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. [ Publius Syrus ]
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. [ Solomon ]
A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages. [ Carlyle ]
A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity. [ De Sales ]
She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil. [ Pericles ]
Speak to living ears as you will wish you had spoken when they are dead.
'Tis a word that's quickly spoken. Which being restrained, a heart is broken. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well. [ Alexander the Great ]
When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead. [ D'Alembert ]
Words of affection, howsoever expressed, , The latest spoken still are deemed the best. [ Joanna Baillie ]
In no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken of in words - not in many words, I think, ever. [ Carlyle ]
It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. [ Menander ]
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. [ Confucius ]
An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. [ Charles Dickens ]
We are for the most part but the contemporaries of happiness. It is spoken of about us, but we die without having known it. [ O. Firmez ]
There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken - the manner, the place and the time. [ Southey ]
Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be a plain-spoken person, and a man of very few words; tropes and figures are his aversion. [ Addison ]
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. [ Hare ]
Her cheeks blushing, and withal, when she was spoken to. a little smiling, were like roses when their leaves are with a little breath stirred. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! [ Scott ]
A beginner should study the raciest, strongest, best spoken speech, and let the printed speech alone. Write straight from the thought, without bothering about the manner. [ William D. Howells, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]
We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. [ La Bruyère ]
The great moments of life are but moments like others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak. [ Thackeray ]
Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]
The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. [ Carlyle ]
Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, - feel it, and hate in silence. [ Washington Allston ]
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]
We have often thought it strange that moralists should have written and spoken of the mutability of human life as if it were a thing to be dreaded and mourned over; to our mind, mutability is the soul of poetry, and the source of nearly all the most delightful and sacred pleasures of life. [ Stubbs ]
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken,
answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart,
she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too?
he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper,
adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]