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)

“Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run—each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away—each a small separation, a small distancing.”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)