Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.”
—Pliny The Elder (23–79)

“The fool saith, I have no friends, I have no thanks for all my good deeds, and they that eat my bread speak evil of me.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 20:16.