Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Love is only one of many passions.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Love is the one wild card.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.