A Quote by Plautus

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. — © Plautus
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, again the continuous pointing a finger at President Bush has gotten tiresome.
Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush.
Despatch is the soul of business.
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
I don't have time to beat around the bush. The health-care plan as proposed by Mrs. Clinton is socialism. There's no soft way to peddle it. There is not other way to describe it.
Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.
Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!
The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed
I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.
What you see is what you get. I'm not going to beat around the bush about anything.
You can't be afraid to speak the truth. If you're speaking truthfully - no matter if you're White, Black, Hispanic, Asian - if it's the truth, it's the truth! And if that's what you're telling, you have no reason to be fearful, or, worry about people trying to diffuse what you're doing. Because, if you're speaking the truth, they can't beat the truth.
I discovered that it's not really about the language. It's about how the words are pronounced and the delivery. We have plenty of good English-speaking comedians. It's O.K. if I have my accent, my gestures, my way of speaking.
When you are involved with the film and the character, you don't find it tiresome at all. But if you think it's tiresome, it will be.
The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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