| "Public speaking is very easy." »Dan Quayle |
| "Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent." »Andrew Alden |
| "An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking." »Cato the Elder |
| "There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire |
| "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price." »Juvenal |
| "The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." »Saint Jerome |
| "(speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble." »Hack Wilson |
| "A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man." »Thomas Mann |
| "speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept." »Carl Lotus Becker |
| "History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money." »John Updike |
| "There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening." »Dorothy Sarnoff |
| "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." »Winston Churchill |
| "Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are." »Rush Hour |
| "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves." »Saint Francis de Sales |
| "No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves." »John Peter Zenger |
| "I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)" »Lizzy Gardiner |
| "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair |
| "I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett |
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