Generally Speaking

Famous quotes containing the words generally speaking, generally and/or speaking:

    “Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “In the continual enterprise of trying to guide appropriately, renegotiate with, listen to and just generally coexist with our teenage children, we ourselves are changed. We learn even more clearly what our base-line virtues are. We listen to our teenagers and change our minds about some things, stretching our own limits. We learn our own capacity for flexibility, firmness and endurance.”
    —Jean Jacobs Speizer. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Collective, ch. 4 (1978)

    “There may be other reasons for a man’s not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)