| "Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "Public speaking is very easy." »Dan Quayle |
| "Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent." »Andrew Alden |
| "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." »Margaret Lee Runbeck |
| "An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking." »Cato the Elder |
| "Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion." »Jane Austen |
| "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price." »Juvenal |
| "There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire |
| "Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves." »Jane Austen |
| "(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 |
| "The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." »Saint Jerome |
| "But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance." »William Shakespeare |
| "We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep." »Elizabeth II |
| "You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." »Aristophanes |
| "When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword." »Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| "The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." »U.S. vs Cruikshan |
| "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 |
| "We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future." »Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck |
| "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 |
| "The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me." »Loren |
| "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 |
| "Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "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 |
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