Quotes About Speech

Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think

Be careful of the words you say, keep them soft and sweet; You never know from day to day which ones you'll have to eat.

The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it.

The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk? Can we think in a sophisticated manner without silent internal speech? And lastly, how did this extraordinarily complex, multicomponent system originally come into existence in our hominin ancestors?

Canto XXI. Visvámitra's Speech.

The unspoken word we control. Once spoken, it controls us.

No matter what you do, be careful of what you say and if you happen to say it, do it.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.

Yelling is a form of publishing

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Never miss a chance to shut up

Being caught by the lord of speech may start with just a reasonable conviction about what we feel to be true. However, if we find ourselves becoming righteously indignant, that's a sure sign that we've gone too far and that our ability to effect change will be hindered.