I know a lot of bad words. None of them seemed bad enough for what I saw yesterday.
So I went out to finish shooting some video for Adventure Cyclist. It was not a speaking role.
If you can’t say anything nice. …
I know a lot of bad words. None of them seemed bad enough for what I saw yesterday.
So I went out to finish shooting some video for Adventure Cyclist. It was not a speaking role.
Never pass up the opportunity to keep your mouth shut. Very often words to live by. 🙂
Well, unless you earn your meager living by jacking your jaw. Before food can go in, words must come out.
Still, a little distance from the news monsoon, an early bedtime, a bit of video editing, some of the old bikey ridey — all these things help bring the cranial temperature down from a rolling boil to a simmer.
And all y’all know pretty much everything I wanted to say anyway.
Sometimes it’s better to let someone else speak for you.
That old expression comes to mind.
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
― Epictetus
Okay, you’re forcing this old preacher to preach: “Blessed are they who have nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it.”
Hard not to follow up (written, not spoken) with:
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” …
“silence is the language of god, …
“I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter.” …
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
🙂
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