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Speakers and speaking

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Witherspoon

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

Phelps, C. C.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Jonson, Ben

10.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Madden, John

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ogden, Tom

21.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Horace

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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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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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

Plutarch

30.

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

Booher, Dianna

31.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Humes, James

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

34.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

35.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

36.

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

Gratton, Henry

37.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Walters, Lily

44.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

46.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

48.

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

Sarton, May

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

Rogers, Will

50.

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