Motivational Quotes

Speech

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Simmons, Charles

Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.

Moralia

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Jean Baptiste Rousseau

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

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

Sir William Osler

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Paz, Octavio

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Publilius Syrus

12.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)

Seneca

13.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

14.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18]

Bible

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The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Connolly, Cyril

16.

Things are often spoke and seldom meant.

William Shakespeare

17.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De

18.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

19.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

20.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Benjamin Disraeli

21.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Belson, Rami

22.

A long tongue shortens life.

23.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

Cruise, Tom

24.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Aitkins, Eileen

25.

A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

26.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

27.

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Rorty, Richard

28.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

29.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Barthes, Roland

30.

For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Goodman, Paul

31.

Men of few words are the best men.

William Shakespeare

32.

Speech is always bolder than action.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Thomas Carlyle

35.

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles

37.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Maxims of Ptahhotep

38.

If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

39.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Melville, Herman

40.

Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.

Hoskins, John

41.

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

Seneca

42.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

43.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Raphael, Frederic

44.

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

William Shakespeare

45.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

48.

Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.

William Shakespeare

49.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Arendt, Hannah

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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

W. Somerset Maugham