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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

- Samuel, Herbert

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

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

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

Claudius

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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

Gardner, Herbert

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Horace

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Orben, Robert

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Pinter, Harold

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Jonson, Ben

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Walters, Lily

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.

Gregg

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Saying

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

White, Somers

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Plutarch

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Benny, Jack

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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