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Quotations by Subject: Speech
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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
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Aprocrypha
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)
Thought is the fountain of speech.
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Chrysippus (280 BC - 207 BC)
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC), On Leveling All Things
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
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Hansell B. Duckett
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
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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.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - )
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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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.
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Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
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Moralia
Tears at times have all the weight of speech.
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Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
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.
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Saskya Pandita
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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