Quotes of Speech - somelinesforyou

“ Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. ”

- Aprocrypha

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ”

- Bob Marley

“ Thought is the fountain of speech. ”

- Chrysippus

“ Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ”

- Chuang tzu

“ The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ”

- Confucius

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

- Demosthenes

“ Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. ”

- Hansell B. Duckett

“ Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. ”

- Jean Baptiste Rousseau

“ The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ”

- Justice Anthony Kennedy

“ Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

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

- Mark Twain

“ Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. ”

- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

“ 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

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

- Moralia

“ Tears at times have all the weight of speech. ”

- Ovid

“ I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ”

- Publilius Syrus

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

- Publilius Syrus

“ In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. ”

- Pythagoras

“ Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. ”

- Saskya Pandita

“ It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. ”

- Seneca

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

- Seneca

“ Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. ”

- Seneca

“ Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

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

- Sir William Osler

“ Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

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

- Sophocles

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

- Thomas Carlyle

“ For murder, though it have no tongue, will speakWith most miraculous organ. ”

- William Shakespeare
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