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Speakers and speaking

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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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

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Hazlitt, William

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

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

Benny, Jack

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

12.

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

Claudius

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

Beggs, Jim

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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

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

18.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Witherspoon

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

Archbold, Ralph

21.

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Mescon, Micheal

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

White, Somers

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

Orben, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

Taft, William Howard

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.

Proverb, German

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

Plutarch

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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

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If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Too many of us speak twice before we think

41.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

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The less people think the more they talk.

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

45.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Rogers, Will

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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