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Speakers and speaking

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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.

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

Homer

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

Rogers, Will

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

Orben, Robert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Claudius

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

Too many of us speak twice before we think

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Taft, William Howard

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

Archbold, Ralph

25.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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Half wits talk much, but say little.

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

Saying

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

Walters, Lily

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Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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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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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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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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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Wayne, John

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Ford, John

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German