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

- Carnegie, Dale

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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.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Walters, Lily

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

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

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Rogers, Will

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

Saying

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Benny, Jack

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Humes, James

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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