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Your Quotes for 20 June 2006 - Whispers

I looked over today's birthdays and history, and nothing moved me. I looked back at the quotes for this day for the last five years, and saw that I couldn't find any historical themes then, either. So I just started poking around in the database until something Whispered in my ear.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.
     - Dagobert D. Runes

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
     - Errol Flynn, 1909 - 1959

To base thought only on speech is to try nailing whispers to the wall. Writing freezes thought and offers it up for inspection.
     - Jack Rosenthal

How frequently are the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!
     - Lawrence Sterne

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
     - Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.
     - Marcel Pagnol

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