Speech Event

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or event:

“These things shine:
The sports of a lord,
the jealousy of a beloved woman,
the forbearance of the powerful,
the speech of the wise,
and the silence of fools.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)