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Speakers and speaking

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Madden, John

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

White, R. S.

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

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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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

12.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

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

Plutarch

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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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.

25.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

27.

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

Rogers, Will

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Witherspoon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Beggs, Jim

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

Ogden, Tom

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Walters, Lily

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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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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Wayne, John

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.