Speakers and Speaking Quotes
104 quotations about Speakers and Speaking
Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
They talk most who have the least to say.
Speak when you are spoken to.
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
The less people think the more they talk.
Speak little and to the purpose.
Speak and the man shall be shown.
The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
A closed mouth catches no flies.
A good speaker makes a good liar.
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
When at a loss how to go on, cough.
He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
Authors on Speakers and Speaking
Arabian Proverb
Ralph Archbold
Jack Benny
Yogi Berra
Bible
Josh Billings
Dianna Booher
Thomas Carlyle
Dale Carnegie
Cato The Elder
William Ellery Channing
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Chinese Proverb
Charles Churchill
Winston Churchill
Marcus T. Cicero
Claudius
Sir Edward Coke
Benjamin Disraeli
Ralph Waldo Emerson