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

Plutarch

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

Humes, James

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Landers, Ann

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

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

Beggs, Jim

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Saying

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

Churchill, Winston

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Ford, John

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Claudius

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

Proverb, Chinese

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Proverb, Italian

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bible

Too many of us speak twice before we think

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Gratton, Henry

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Horace

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.

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

Benny, Jack

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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