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Speakers and speaking

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

Gracian, Baltasar

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

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

Pinter, Harold

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

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

11.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

13.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Claudius

16.

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

Horace

17.

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

Booher, Dianna

18.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Benny, Jack

20.

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

Saying

21.

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

Wayne, John

22.

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

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Mescon, Micheal

24.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

25.

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Coke, Sir Edward

28.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

29.

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

Gratton, Henry

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Ford, John

35.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

37.

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

44.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Sarton, May

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

49.

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

Osler, Sir William

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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