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Speakers and speaking

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Jonson, Ben

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.

White, Somers

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

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

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

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

Homer

16.

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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Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

19.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

20.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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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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Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wayne, John

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

Gratton, Henry

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

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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When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

30.

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

Benny, Jack

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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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Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Witherspoon

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

Ford, John

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Too many of us speak twice before we think