A Collection of some great thoughts (माखासे गेदेमानि बुंथि)

गाहायाव जों माखासे गेदेमानि बुंथि फोसावदों । आसा खालामो राइजो राजा नोंथांमोना फरायनानै मोजां मोनगोन-

1. “Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the conversation.”—Dwight MacDonald (1906–1982), American editor

2. “Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.”—Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German writer

3. “If it is language that makes us human, one half of language is to listen.”—Jacob Trapp (1899–1992) American religious leader

4. “Argument is the worst form of conversation.” —Jonathon Swift (1667–1745), English writer, satirist

5. “People have one thing in common: they are all different.”—Robert Zend (1929–1985), American writer

6. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), 26th U.S. President

7. “Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much.” —John Wayne (1907–1979), American actor

8. “Keep it light, bright and polite.” —English proverb

9. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.” —Erich Fromm (1900–1980), psychologist

10. “There is only one beautiful child in the world, and each mother has that one.” —Latin American proverb

11. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), French-American author

12. “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, (1914–1998), Mexican writer, Nobel Prize winner

13. “I never met a man I didn’t like.”—Will Rogers (1879–1935), American humorist

14. “I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.”—W. C. Fields (1880–1946), comedian

15. “There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.”—James Nathan Miller, contemporary journalist

16. “He’s the sort of guy if you say, ‘Hi ya, Clark, how are you?’ he’s stuck for an answer.”—Ava Gardner, film star, describing her ex-lover, the film star Clark Gable.

17. “Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), American essayist/philosopher

18. “Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion. ‘How are you’ is a greeting, not a question.”—Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943), American poet

19. “The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.”—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), British novelist/politician

20. “Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), French writer

21. “It takes two to speak truth—one to speak and another to hear.”—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American philosopher

22. “There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that’s all.”—Rebecca West (1892–1983), English writer

23. “I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.”—Barbara Streisand (1942–), American singer, actress, director, producer

24. “Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), novelist

25. “Never let your fear of striking out get in your way.”—Babe Ruth (1895–1948), American baseball legend

26. “It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.”—Yogi Berra (1925–) legendary baseball manager/catcher