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Speakers and speaking

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A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Archbold, Ralph

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

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

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

Mescon, Micheal

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Plutarch

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Madden, John

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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A good speaker makes a good liar.

Proverb, German

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

White, Somers

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Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

Humes, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

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

Pinter, Harold

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

Walters, Lily

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

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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 do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

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

White, R. S.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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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

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