Voices Proverbs

Sayings about Voices

Before you let your voice be heard, first lick your lips. ~ Indonesian Proverb

The voice of a poor man does not carry very far. ~ Laotian Proverb

Three things that can’t be taught: generosity, poetry and a singing voice.~ Irish Proverb

Often a silent face has voice and words. ~ Latin Proverb

Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold. ~ Latin Proverb

The earth has ears, the wind has a voice. ~ Turkish Proverb

They asked a bullfrog, “Why do you croak all the time?” He replied, “I’m enchanted with my voice.” ~ Armenian Proverb

Silence is the voice of complicity. ~ Traditional Proverb

Being in the right does not depend on having a loud voice. ~ Chinese Proverb

Voice of one, voice of none. ~ Italian Proverb

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument. ~ Lebanese Proverb

The voice of the people is louder than the boom of a canon.~ Armenian Proverb

Quotations about Voices

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. ~ Maya Angelou

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.~ Stephen King

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.~ Vincent Van Gogh

The voice of the people is the voice of God.~ Hesiod

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone. ~ Peter Steele

Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. ~ Pierce Brosnan

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. ~ Sigmund Freud

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ~ Leo Tolstoy

The tones of human voices mightier than strings or brass to move the soul.~ Friedrich O. Klopstock

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions. ~ Jens Stoltenberg

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. ~ Mohandas Gandhi

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. ~ Frank Sinatra

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. ~ Marquis de Sade

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?' ~ Sydney J. Harris

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. ~ Woodrow Wilson

My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.~ Joseph Addison

The Soul is the voice of the body’s interests. ~ George Santayana

Thy voice is a celestial melody. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mirah's was the sort of voice that gives the impression of being meant, like a bird's wooing, for an audience near and beloved. ~ George Eliot

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.~ Charles M. Schulz

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. ~ Samuel L. Jackson

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. ~ Shawn Johnson

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming. ~ Al Stewart

You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices. ~ Don Lemon

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said ‘Who’s speaking please?’ And a voice said ‘You are.’ ~ Tim Vine

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often. ~ Du Fu

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. ~ Jim Harrison

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. ~ Leslie Fiedler

Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one's voice. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.~ Carl Jung

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one’s voice. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The shadow of a sound,–a voice without a mouth, and words without a tongue. ~ Paul Chatfield

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. ~ Malala Yousafzai

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.~ William Shakespeare

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.~ Mohandas Gandhi

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.~ Dag Hammarskjold

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. ~ H. L. Mencken

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.~ George Washington Carver

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. ~ Jimmy Buffett

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.~ Paul Tillich

Thy voice is sweet as if it took its music form thy face.~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The human voice is the organ of the soul.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow