Motivational Quotes

Speech

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

- Moralia

Best Quotes about Speech

1.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Belson, Rami

2.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

3.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

4.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Cioran, E. M.

5.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

6.

Why doesn't the fellow who says, I'm no speechmaker let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

Hubbard, Kin

7.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Maugham, W. Somerset

8.

How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.

William Shakespeare

9.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Cruise, Tom

10.

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]

Bible

11.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

12.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

Seneca

13.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

Bible

14.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Raphael, Frederic

15.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Simmons, Charles

17.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Tiberius

18.

Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

19.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Rorty, Richard

20.

A long tongue shortens life.

21.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

22.

I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Sir William Osler

24.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

25.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

26.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

28.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

29.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

31.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Paz, Octavio

33.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

34.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

35.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Wilder, Thornton

36.

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

37.

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Mann, Thomas

38.

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Proverb, Arabian

39.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

40.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Melville, Herman

41.

I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.

William Shakespeare

42.

Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.

William Shakespeare

43.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Cato The Elder

44.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.