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Speakers and speaking

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1.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

3.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

4.

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

Carnegie, Dale

5.

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

Landers, Ann

6.

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

Phillips, H. L.

7.

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

Orben, Robert

8.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

9.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

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

Witherspoon

11.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

12.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

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

15.

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

White, Somers

16.

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

Archbold, Ralph

17.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

White, R. S.

19.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Claudius

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Taft, William Howard

26.

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

Walters, Lily

27.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

28.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

31.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

33.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

34.

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

35.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Gratton, Henry

39.

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

Beggs, Jim

40.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

41.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

42.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

43.

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

Saying

44.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

Bible

48.

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.

49.

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

Humes, James

50.

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

Pinter, Harold

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