A Quote by Robert Benchley

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley
American - Comedian
September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

With sex my wife thinks twice before she turns me down. Yeah, once in the morning and once at night.

Rodney Dangerfield

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Edward Heath

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Charles Bukowski

When a king speaks, the armies move. But when a wise man speaks, only the beard shakes.

Vinoba Bhave

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

Sophocles

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

Susan Sontag

To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.

Wang Wei

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Confucius

Lennon has an amazing ability to think before she speaks. She doesn't have to constantly be talking. She just thinks, and when she speaks, it's thoughtful. She's very calm. I'm trying to learn that from her.

Jessica St. Clair

A wise man once said, 'Instead of crying, I keep on trying.' And that wise man is me, because I just made that up. I think.

Bobby Bones

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

Simon Armitage

Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Octavio Paz

A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, “I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win.” The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, “I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

Jon Gordon

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