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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity. - William R. Alger Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. - Edmund Burke That, of course, they are many in number, or that, after all, they are, other than the little shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. - Edmund Burke The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. - Thomas Carlyle Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. - Charles Caleb Colton Bold at the council board, but cautious in the field. - John Dryden Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. - Edward Everett A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Loudness is impotence. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying? - Sir Roger L'Estrange Without big words, how could many people say small things? - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. - Alexander Pope A killing tongue and a quiet sword. - William Shakespeare Splitting the air with noise. - William Shakespeare The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. - William Shakespeare They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters? - William Shakespeare What art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? A heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not My dagger in my mouth. - William Shakespeare True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. - Tobias George Smollett For highest looks have not the highest mind, Nor haughty words most full of highest thought; But are like bladders blown up with the wind, That being prick'd evanish into nought. - Edmund Spenser
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