Quotes about speakers and speaking

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

Hansen, Mark Victor on speakers and speaking   

"We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves."

Hazlitt, William on speakers and speaking   

"Better never begin than never make an end."

Herbert, George on speakers and speaking   

"Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it."

Hightower, Cullen on speakers and speaking   

"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes."

Homer on speakers and speaking   

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

Horace on speakers and speaking
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"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."

Humes, James on speakers and speaking
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"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 on speakers and speaking   

"Most speakers speak ten minutes too long."

Humes, James on speakers and speaking   

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

Jonson, Ben on speakers and speaking   

"If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on speakers and speaking   

"Passions are the only orators to always convinces us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on speakers and speaking   

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De on speakers and speaking   

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

Landers, Ann on speakers and speaking
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"Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people."

Lewis, Joe E. on speakers and speaking   

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

Madden, John on speakers and speaking   

"What is uttered is finished and done with."

Mann, Thomas on speakers and speaking   

"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 on speakers and speaking
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"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. on speakers and speaking
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"The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about."

Mescon, Micheal on speakers and speaking
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"Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears."

Meyers, Gerald C. on speakers and speaking   

"I know you will guess all I leave unsaid."

Mirabeau, Comte De on speakers and speaking   

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

Montesquieu, Charles De on speakers and speaking   

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on speakers and speaking   

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

Ogden, Tom on speakers and speaking   

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

Orben, Robert on speakers and speaking   

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

Osler, Sir William on speakers and speaking
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"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on speakers and speaking   

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

Peale, Norman Vincent on speakers and speaking   

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

Phelps, C. C. on speakers and speaking   

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

Phillips, H. L. on speakers and speaking   

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

Pilgrim, Peace on speakers and speaking   

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

Pinter, Harold on speakers and speaking   

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

Plutarch on speakers and speaking   

"They talk most who have the least to say."

Prior, Matthew on speakers and speaking   

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"Speak when you are spoken to."

Proverb on speakers and speaking   

"Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim."

Proverb on speakers and speaking
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"The less people think the more they talk."

Proverb on speakers and speaking   

"Speak little and to the purpose."

Proverb on speakers and speaking   

"Speak and the man shall be shown."

Proverb on speakers and speaking