Quotes About Speech

I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.

The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.

Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

Be careful of your thoughts they may become words at any moment.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out and it commands attention, it commands change. I'm talking about the power that's inside of you.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." Before he could finish the phrase, red-robed Speaker of the House John Robinson cried, "Treason! Treason," as other burgesses took up the cry. But Henry stared the Speaker in the eye and finished his sentence: "...may profit by their example! If this be treason, make the most of it!

Ik eet vis met een vieze vork van een vies bord. Deze vis smaakt zo verrukkelijk, dat ik in vervoering een toespraak zou willen houden!

44. In meter singing is joined, and therefore there must be more care of the speech and tone, then in prose. 45. But the melody of singing is ordained for a certain spiritual delight, whereby the mind is detained in the meditation of the thing that is sung.

Kinquering Congs their titles take.

When you command, remember 'tis but speech To bid a thing be acted to your mind

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

A thoughtOf that late death took all my heart for speech.