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Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

- Meltzer, Bernard

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

Landers, Ann

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

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

Rogers, Will

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Carnegie, Dale

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Witherspoon

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

Taft, William Howard

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Meltzer, Bernard

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Billings, Josh

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

Walters, Lily

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Humes, James

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

Too many of us speak twice before we think

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Beggs, Jim

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

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 makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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

Carlyle, Thomas

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Phillips, H. L.

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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