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Speakers and speaking

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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

10.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

11.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

12.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

13.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

14.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

16.

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

17.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

18.

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

21.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

22.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

24.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

25.

He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.

Proverb, French

26.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

28.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

29.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

30.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

33.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

34.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

35.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

36.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

38.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

Churchill, Winston

39.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

40.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

41.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

43.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

44.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

45.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

46.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

47.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

48.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

50.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.

Chesterfield, Lord

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