speaking - quotes

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

was an English poet and playwright

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

( “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, Act 3 scene 1, ca 1590 )

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910

was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.