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Speakers and speaking
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking
Too many of us speak twice before we think
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
Peale, Norman Vincent
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Franklin, Benjamin
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
Channing, William Ellery
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Archbold, Ralph
Speak little and to the purpose.
Proverb
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
Gratton, Henry
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Lamartine, Alphonse De
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.
Meyers, Gerald C.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.
A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Pascal, Blaise
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Proverb
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
Hightower, Cullen
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
Mirabeau, Comte De
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Booher, Dianna
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Churchill, Winston
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Osler, Sir William
A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.
Brooks, Van Wyck
There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.
Half wits talk much, but say little.
Franklin, Benjamin
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Orben, Robert
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Carnegie, Dale
Better never begin than never make an end.
Herbert, George
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Wilde, Oscar
I didn't say the things I said.
Berra, Yogi
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Carnegie, Dale
He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
Samuel, Herbert
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Proverb, German
When at a loss how to go on, cough.
Proverb, Greek
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
Bible
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Landers, Ann
The less people think the more they talk.
Proverb
A good speaker makes a good liar.
Proverb, German
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
Rogers, Will
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Carnegie, Dale
The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.
Mescon, Micheal
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
Proverb, Arabian
Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Gracian, Baltasar
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
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