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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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Jonson, Ben

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Benny, Jack

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gratton, Henry

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

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

Saying

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Humes, James

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Witherspoon

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Ford, John

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Pinter, Harold

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

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

Rogers, Will

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Orben, Robert

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Gardner, Herbert

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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