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Speakers and speaking
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Best Quotes about Speakers and speaking
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Be sincere, be brief; be seated.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
Witherspoon
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
Proverb, Arabian
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Proverb
I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Twain, Mark
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Orben, Robert
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
Churchill, Winston
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
Mirabeau, Comte De
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Carnegie, Dale
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
Rogers, Will
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Archbold, Ralph
The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.
Walters, Lily
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
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
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Mann, Thomas
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Booher, Dianna
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Wayne, John
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
Homer
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Proverb, Chinese
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Hansen, Mark Victor
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Wilde, Oscar
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Cicero, Marcus T.
He who does not say too much has too much to say.
Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
Humes, James
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
Peale, Norman Vincent
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Franklin, Benjamin
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
Ford, John
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Pilgrim, Peace
I didn't say the things I said.
Berra, Yogi
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
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
Madden, John
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.
Phillips, H. L.
A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Osler, Sir William
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
Wilde, Oscar
A good speaker makes a good liar.
Proverb, German
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