Quotes About Speech

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Words once spoken, can never be recalled.

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.

The mike is mightier than the pen or the sword.

The pen is mightier than the sword. The [??n!$] is mightier than the pen.

The tongue is not the sea but it can drown you.

Svako ljudsko delo i svaka re? mogu da donesu zlo.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth.

Kako ?e on pisati ako ne ume da govori? Slova su ogledalo re?i. I kad naizgled pišemo u tišini, naš zapis je slika i prilika govora koji te?e u nama, bilo da je drugima ili nama samima upu?en.

All right, I thought, as one long-winded winner (And I'd like to thanks my parakeet and his veterinarian...) finally exited

A leader gathered his thoughts before he spoke; he did not rush to the podium to be adored. Ego, after all, was the root of evil.

eyes as they stared up at him the night before, he started to speak, the words not coming from his brain

I plead the fifth.

of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

The federal government has no business spending your hard-earned money on a project to monitor political speech on Twitter.

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.