#uttered

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bread #buttered #deliberation #determine #examining

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#angel #assures #babe #before #born

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. ↗

— William Cobbett

#buoy #empty #falsehoods #last #long

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#desk #doing #job #probably #you

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#action #been #few #foolish #many

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#cluttered #desk #mind #sign #significance

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#back #both #both sides #bread #buttered

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#becomes #exiles #fate #first #future

Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#deal #district #districts #ever #fictitious

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#because #false #necessarily #nor #spoken