(1136 quotes found)
“Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.”
Shel Silverstein
“The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.”
Voltaire
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
Chinua Achebe
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.”
D. T. Niles
“My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.”
Groucho Marx
“Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores”
W. H. Auden
“A watched clock never tells the time”
Proverb
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”
Billie Holiday
“When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are”
Cary Grant
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