black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Related Topics

Best Conversation Reason Rule

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Food Promise
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Easy Light Reason Ride
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Human Nature Oneself Talent
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fake Philosophy Truth
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Corruption Politics Understand Word
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Bird Injury People Worth
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Children One Liner
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes