Quotes About Speech

Silence can mock.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

He has more tongues in his head than some have teeth.

But though, speaking for myself, I thus admit the possibility of revelation, I totally disbelieve that the Almighty ever did communicate any thing to man, by any mode of speech, in any language, or by any kind of vision, or appearance, or by any means which our senses are capable of receiving, otherwise than by the universal display of himself in the works of the creation, and by that repugnance we feel in ourselves to bad actions, and disposition to good ones.

Creation speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

His heart's in the right place, but his tongue's an affliction.

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

There is no one member of the body breaks forth more in God's dishonour than the tongue.

A boasting tongue, as sure as fate,    Will trip its owner soon or late.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

Cuando te encuentres solo, observa tu mente. Cuando estés con gente, observa tu habla.

Como línea maestra, Buda aconsejó que evitásemos diez acciones que destruyen nuestra felicidad y la de los demás. Tres de ellas son físicas: matar, robar, y mantener una conducta sexual imprudente o poco aconsejable. Otras cuatro son verbales: mentir, calumniar, insultar, y conversar de un modo frívolo. Y tres son mentales: codiciar las posesiones ajenas, pensar con malicia y mantener visiones erróneas.

Whatever tasks befall you, do not engage in malicious jokes that tear at others' hearts or cause them to lose their composure. Regardless of their culpability, avoid insulting and speaking harshly to others—whether close or distant, good or bad.

Besides, it's my God-given right as an American to speak my mind and fill others' ears with my thoughts, my opinions, my innermost feelings, and my repressed childhood memories.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises.

But I am Northern myself, and there is a certain rhythm of Northern speech that is very comical: that combination of the choice of language and the speech rhythm, which in itself is very funny.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Guys say 'like' all the time, and no one notices it.