What is spoken barely hints at what is shuttered in.
From Gray Matters, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The man who eats his lunch on the green bench talked to his sandwich today, or to someone not there. I caught three words of it, all of them about a bus schedule, and then nothing for eleven minutes while his hands kept moving. For years I took a quiet man for an empty one and a talker for a full one, which is the kind of mistake you make when you judge a nest by how loud it is in the morning. What is spoken barely hints at what is shuttered in. Switch says he can tell what is in a tree by knocking on it; I have watched him be wrong about that twice this week. The man folded his wax paper into a very small square before he left, and I do not know what that was for either.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- When people say they want to feel better, they usually mean they want to feel less.
- If you give a reason for what you’re doing, you’re doing it for a different reason.
- It’s not the evidence you find that matters, but the evidence you find inconvenient.
- Leap to a conclusion and you usually fall short.
- When you are not sure where you are going, you are more likely to keep your eyes open.
- You can take a book on a trip around the world or stay home and let the book take you.