Quotes About Speech

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

By men's words we know them.

All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.

He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

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

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.