Pastoral Resources

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation.

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.