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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

- Churchill, Winston

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Wilde, Oscar

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.

Coke, Sir Edward

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Archbold, Ralph

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Proverb, French

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Twain, Mark

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Hansen, Mark Victor

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Ford, John

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Mann, Thomas

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

Peale, Norman Vincent

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Carnegie, Dale

When at a loss how to go on, cough.

Proverb, Greek

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Proverb, Chinese

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

Horace

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Phelps, C. C.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Carlyle, Thomas

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Mencken, H. L.

Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.

Ogden, Tom

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Sarton, May

Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears.

Meyers, Gerald C.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Channing, William Ellery

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Taft, William Howard

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Samuel, Herbert

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Cicero, Marcus T.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

Wilde, Oscar

Too many of us speak twice before we think

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Gardner, Herbert

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

Billings, Josh

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Wayne, John

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Rogers, Will

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Franklin, Benjamin

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Gracian, Baltasar

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Gratton, Henry

Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Pascal, Blaise

An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

Humes, James

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb, Spanish

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Booher, Dianna

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

Churchill, Winston

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

Madden, John

It always takes a person much longer to tell you what he thinks than what he knows.

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