“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
“Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen”
“Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.”
“. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
“If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.”