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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

Osler, Sir William

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

Sarton, May

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

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

Landers, Ann

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

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

Carnegie, Dale

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

White, Somers

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

Jonson, Ben

Speak and the man shall be shown.

Proverb

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Orben, Robert

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Madden, John

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

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

Ogden, Tom

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Half wits talk much, but say little.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Humes, James

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

Claudius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Mirabeau, Comte De

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Churchill, Winston

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Phillips, H. L.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Coke, Sir Edward

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Saying

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

Speak little and to the purpose.

Proverb

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Carnegie, Dale

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

Proverb

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

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Taft, William Howard

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, Chinese

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

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

Witherspoon

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

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