Quotes About Speech

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

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

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

I mean, look, no matter how you feel about Bush, watching him speak is difficult. It's like- it's like watching a drunk man cross an icy street.

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.

MARIA. So. How is everyone? Can you hear me? I don't believe in microphones. Singing is first of all about projection. So is speech. People are forgetting how to listen. They want everything blasted at them. Listening takes concentration. If you can't hear me, it's your fault. You're not concentrating.

Your life tomorrow will be determined by the words you speak today.