Motivational Quotes

Speech

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

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Best Quotes about Speech

1.

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Goodman, Paul

2.

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

Cruise, Tom

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

6.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

7.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

8.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

9.

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

Moralia

10.

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

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

16.

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

17.

I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Tiberius

22.

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.

Fallaci, Oriana

23.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Sir Francis Bacon

24.

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

25.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal

26.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Cioran, E. M.

30.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

31.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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

Hesse, Hermann

33.

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

34.

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

Benjamin Disraeli

35.

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

Hansell B. Duckett

36.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

37.

A long tongue shortens life.

38.

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

39.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

41.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

42.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Cato The Elder

44.

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

Syrus, Publilius

45.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

46.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb, Arabian

49.

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

50.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Noonan, Peggy