Rudyard Kipling on talking

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.

Every woman knows all about everything.

A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional…values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man

• Debate

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain1835–1910

If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

• Success