Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

Michel De Montaigne
Some Similar Quotes
  1. To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions. - Amit Kalantri

  2. Be a worthy worker and work will come. - Amit Kalantri

  3. Great losses are great lessons. - Amit Kalantri

  4. Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating. - Siri Hustvedt

  5. What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. - Jacques Derrida

More Quotes By Michel De Montaigne
  1. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

  2. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

  3. I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

  4. I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

  5. Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

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