Speech Quotes
- A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- A person’s character is revealed by their speech~ Greek proverb
- A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech ~ Plutarch
- All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish ~ Demosthenes
- At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. ~ Marshall Lumsden
- Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ~ Peter F. Drucker
- Even a soft speech has its own poison. ~ Syrian Proverb
- Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. ~ Salman Rushdie
- Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. ~Nancie J. Carmody
- I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ~ Author Unknown
- It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ~ Mark Twain
- Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. ~ Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. ~ The Holy Bible
- Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening ~ Dorothy Sarnoff
- Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. ~ George Savile
- My father gave me these hints on speech-making: “Be sincere… be brief… be seated.” ~ James Roosevelt
- No one ever complains about a speech being too short! ~ Ira Hayes
- Not speech, but facts, convince. ~ Greek Proverb
- People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- Proverbs are the lamp of speech. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- Silence is also speech. ~ West African Proverb
- Silence sweeter is than speech. ~ Dinah Mulock Craik
- Song is the heroics of speech. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. ~ Dr. Laurence J. Peter
- Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men. ~ Latin Proverb
- Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
- Speech is always bolder than action. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
- Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Speech is civilization itself. The word… preserves contact — it is silence which isolates. ~ Thomas Mann
- Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. ~ Antoine Rivarol
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- Speech is human; silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- Speech is often repented, silence never. ~ Danish Proverb
- Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Speech is silver, silence is golden. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few. ~ Cato the Elder
- Speech is the mirror of action. ~ Solon
- Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. ~ Publilius Syrus
- Speech is the small change of silence. ~ George Meredith
- Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. ~ Francis Bacon
- Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. ~ Charles M. de Talleyrand
- The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. ~ Cliff Fadiman
- The best way to make a good speech is to have a good beginning and a good ending – and have them close together ~ Speech Quotes
- The public improves the speaker’s speech. ~ Iranian Proverb
- The radiant and well-understood speech of one person is better than the speech of a thousand people that is not. ~ African Proverb
- The sober man’s secret is the drunkard’s speech. ~ Russian Proverb
- The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
- There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. ~ Mark Twain
- They will be hushed by a good deed who laugh at a wise speech. ~ French Proverb
- To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
- 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
- Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence. ~ French Proverb
- We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
- What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks ~ Romanian Proverb
- What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. ~ Hansell B. Duckett
- Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, ‘That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.’~ Woodrow T. Wilson
- Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow… ~ Lawrence Clark Powell
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