Home » Quote » Henry Miller » „To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.“ „To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.“ — Henry Miller Related quotes „A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.“ — Rick Riordan „The Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.“ — Chinua Achebe „Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.“ — Harper Lee „Max opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again. “No.”“Speak louder. You used a word I don’t understand.”“ — Robert A. Heinlein „If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.“ — Paulo Coelho „I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.“ — Paulo Coelho