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Speakers and speaking

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

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

Walters, Lily

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Orben, Robert

12.

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

Jonson, Ben

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

14.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

20.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Claudius

22.

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

Landers, Ann

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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

24.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

25.

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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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

27.

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

Taft, William Howard

28.

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

29.

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

Benny, Jack

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

34.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

35.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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He who does not say too much has too much to say.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pinter, Harold

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