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Speakers and speaking

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

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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

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Witherspoon

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

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

Gardner, Herbert

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It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Italian

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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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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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Osler, Sir William

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I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gratton, Henry

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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

Taft, William Howard

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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