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Speakers and speaking

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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.

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

Ford, John

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

11.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

12.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

13.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

14.

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

15.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

16.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

17.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

18.

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

19.

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

Rogers, Will

20.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

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

Humes, James

22.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

24.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

25.

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

Saying

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Benny, Jack

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Witherspoon

31.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

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

34.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

35.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

Jonson, Ben

37.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

38.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

43.

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

Gardner, Herbert

44.

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

Claudius

45.

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

46.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

47.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian