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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
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Homer
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Churchill, Winston
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
Lewis, Joe E.
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Coke, Sir Edward
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Carnegie, Dale
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
Montesquieu, Charles De
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Carlyle, Thomas
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Churchill, Winston
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Proverb, Spanish
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Chesterton, Gilbert K.
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Booher, Dianna
Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
Witherspoon
Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
Ogden, Tom
Half wits talk much, but say little.
Franklin, Benjamin
An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
Proverb, French
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
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
Wilde, Oscar
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Benny, Jack
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
Proverb, Arabian
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Pinter, Harold
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Cicero, Marcus T.
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Wayne, John
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Madden, John
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Ford, John
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Carnegie, Dale
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
Proverb, German
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Hansen, Mark Victor
The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Landers, Ann
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Mann, Thomas
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
A good speaker makes a good liar.
Proverb, German
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
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
Taft, William Howard
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
Sarton, May
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
Phelps, C. C.
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Gardner, Herbert
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