Quotes About Speech

Death is just a noun which takes all the parts of speech of life with it.

Don't dig your own grave with your tongue.

Don't talk too much because ignorance is greater and more dangerous than your knowledge.

Education teaches a man how to speak, now how long or how often.

My tongue is a knife that is very sharp and you know, it can hurt you very easily.

The fool speaks when he has nothing to say.

The mouth of a man is a terrible opening and his tongue is a terrible fire dragon.

The word of a man is a man, so make your words worthwhile.

The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.

Think before you speak but do not speak everything that you think.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? (Lamentations 3:37-38)

Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. (2 Timothy 2:16)

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

The way to become boring is to say everything.

when the ego disappears, so does power over language.

The Ogre does what Ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man. But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.