Quotes About Speech

Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

A woman uses about 20,000 words per day while a man uses about 7,000.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Men's language is as their lives.

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.