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

- Jonson, Ben

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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

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

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

Wayne, John

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

White, Somers

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Osler, Sir William

The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose.

Walters, Lily

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.

Montesquieu, Charles De

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Landers, Ann

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Pinter, Harold

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Lewis, Joe E.

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

Saying

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

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

Coke, Sir Edward

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Orben, Robert

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

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

Benny, Jack

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Humes, James

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

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