Quotes About Speech

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

Speak comfortable words.

Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech. The gods of golf lie in wait to chasten the presumptious.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

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