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Speakers and speaking

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

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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

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

10.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Benny, Jack

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

Walters, Lily

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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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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Ford, John

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Booher, Dianna

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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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He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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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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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Archbold, Ralph

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Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Humes, James

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas