A Quote by Hesiod

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Hesiod

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Hesiod
Greek - Poet
800 BC - 720 BC

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

Hesiod

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

John Selden

Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

Hilaire Belloc

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Rumi

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Confucius

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

Horace

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

Will Rogers, Jr.

Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.

David Brenner

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Wilkie Collins

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

Euripides

The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.

Eric Ludy

The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.