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Quotes About Speech

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
~ Plutarch
The proposal to introduce GST was first mooted by P. Chidambaram in his budget speech of 2006
~ Pranab Mukherjee
Good things not spoke but bad things many spokes...but good things more than powerful silent.
~ Prasanna v
Listen to taciturnity. It has too much to utterance.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Il est plus facile d'être brave en paroles qu'en actions.
~ Prosper Mérimée
Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.
~ Proverb
We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
~ Proverb
A fool's speech is a bubble of AIR
~ Proverb
A fool's voice is known by a multitude of words.
~ Proverb
A proverb in the mouth of a fool is as useless as a paralyzed leg.
~ Proverb
Don't talk too much, because your ignorance is greater than your knowledge.
~ Proverb
Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned…. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.
~ Ptahhotep
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
~ Publilius Syrus
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
~ Publilius Syrus
Speech is a mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he.
~ Publilius Syrus
Be silent, or say something better than silence.
~ Pythagoras
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the overt act be erased.
~ Pythagoras
A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.
~ Pythagoras
No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.
~ Quino
poor and poverty-stricken persons desire wealth; animals desire speech; ordinary persons are obsessed with the idea of going to heaven; God men and hermits only seek relinquishment.
~ R.P. Jain
The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
But here Nature fulfilled her want of speech and spoke for her. The murmur of the brook, the voice of the village folk, the songs of the boatmen, the crying of the birds and rustle of trees mingled and were one with the trembling of her heart. They became one vast wave of sound which beat upon her restless soul.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
But here Nature fulfilled her want of speech and spoke fr her. The murmur of the brook, the voice of the village folk, the songs of the boatmen, the crying of the bird and the rustle of the trees mingled and were one with the trembling of her heart. They became one vast wave of sound which beat upon her restless soul. This murmur and movement of Nature were dumb girl's language; that speech of the dark eyes, which the long lushes shaded, was the language of the world about her.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
~ Temple Grandin