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

- Pascal, Blaise

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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Meyers, Gerald C.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Ogden, Tom

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

Orben, Robert

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Carnegie, Dale

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Benny, Jack

The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about.

Mescon, Micheal

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

White, R. S.

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

Phelps, C. C.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Landers, Ann

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

Gardner, Herbert

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

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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

White, Somers

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

Gracian, Baltasar

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Proverb, Italian

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Churchill, Winston

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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