Polish Proverb Quotes

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Don’t ever talk until you know what you’re talking about…

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

I always try to have an open mind, but there is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in the head.

Soft words and hard arguments.

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned.

Say only a little but say it well.

Permit me also to express my great admiration of the thoughts expressed by you, with such eloquent simplicity & appropriateness, at the consecration of the cemetery. I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.

A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.

He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Use your logick, and then your rhetorick. Rhetorick without logick, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet I confess more are taken with rhetorick than logick, because they are catched with a free expression, when they understand not reason. Logick must be natural, or it is worth nothing at all: Your rhetorick figures may be learned.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Wisdom is not the province of only one party.

Less is almost always better than more. Short words, short sentences, short speeches.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

What is permitted is not always wise.

Be sincere, be brief, be seated.