Quotes About Speech

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]

Here is an exercise in advanced Right Speech. Starting tomorrow when you wake up, don't gossip. See what happens if you just give up making comments about anyone not present. Listen carefully to the voice in your mind as it is getting ready to make a comment, and think to yourself, "Why am I saying this?" Awareness of intention is the best clue for knowing whether the remark you are about to make is Right Speech. Is

Let me never speak casually.

I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.

Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled usTo purify the dialect of the tribe.

The so-called "lawful" way of seeking change was clearly a deception. Thinking about it in her own way based on what she was familiar with, Yasuko wondered if this was the reason why at some of the recent left-wing speech meetings the police outnumbered even the audience.

It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.

A drunkard's words are gone when the next day dawns.