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Speakers and speaking

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

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1.

Better never begin than never make an end.

Herbert, George

2.

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

3.

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

4.

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

5.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

6.

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

7.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

9.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

12.

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Jonson, Ben

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

Rogers, Will

16.

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

Horace

17.

Be sincere, be brief; be seated.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

19.

The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Hightower, Cullen

22.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

24.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

25.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

26.

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

Wayne, John

27.

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

Madden, John

28.

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

Phelps, C. C.

29.

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

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

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

Taft, William Howard

32.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Carnegie, Dale

34.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

35.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

36.

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.

37.

Too many of us speak twice before we think

38.

I didn't say the things I said.

Berra, Yogi

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Benny, Jack

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Booher, Dianna

43.

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

44.

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

Ogden, Tom

45.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

46.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

Claudius

48.

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

49.

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

Sarton, May

50.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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