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Speakers and speaking

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Sarton, May

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ford, John

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

Humes, James

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

White, R. S.

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

Saying

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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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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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

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Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Claudius

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

Jonson, Ben

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Booher, Dianna

33.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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

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

Walters, Lily

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

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Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent