| "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 |
| "Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another." »Sophocles |
| "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 |
| "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." »David Mamet |
| "After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone." »Henry Bromel |
| "Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu |
| "Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles." »Brooks Hays |
| "As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech." »Rowan Atkinson |
| "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also." »Seneca |
| "Discretion in speech is more than eloquence." »Francis Bacon |
| "speech is the mirror of the mind." »Seneca |
| "Thought is the fountain of speech." »Chrysippus |
| "What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them." »Vincent McNabb |
| "In anger we should refrain both from speech and action." »Pythagoras |
| "Tears at times have all the weight of speech." »Ovid |
| "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." »Martin Fraquhar Tupper |
| "Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. speech was given to conceal thought." »William Osler |
| "Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words." »Aprocrypha |
| "What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to." »Hansell B. Duckett |
| "Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech." »Chinese Proverb |
| "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." »Demosthenes |
| "Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Do not fight verbosity with words speech is given to all, intelligence to few." »Moralia |
| "Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." »Plutarch |
| "In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought." »Tiberius |
| "speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken." »George Eliot |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
