Speaking Quotations
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| Coolidge was known for his terse speech and reticence. A woman bet her friend that she could get Coolidge to speak to her, which was something he was reluctant to do. She went up to him and said: "Hello, Mr. President, I bet my friend that I could get you to say three words to me." "You lose," Coolidge replied dryly, and walked away. | |||
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| The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. | |||
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| Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain. | |||
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| Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. | |||
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| Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. | |||
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| Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. | |||
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| The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut. | |||
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| The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. | |||
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| The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak. | |||
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| When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. | |||
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| I just wish my mouth had a backspace key. | |||
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| Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if he kept his mouth shut. | |||
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| An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. | |||
| - Walter Bagehot | |||
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| Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. | |||
| - Ambrose Bierce | |||
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| Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. | |||
| - Josh Billings | |||
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| By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
| In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. | |||
| - Sir Winston Churchill | |||
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| Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. | |||
| - Quentin Crisp | |||
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| Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours. | |||
| - Benjamin Disraeli | |||
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| One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. | |||
| - Will Durant | |||
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| Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving evidence of the fact. | |||
| - George Eliot | |||
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| Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. | |||
| - Ernest Hemingway | |||
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| Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. | |||
| - Hermann Hesse | |||
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| Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. | |||
| - Horace | |||
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| No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. | |||
| - Edgar Watson Howe | |||
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| To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. | |||
| - Ben Jonson | |||
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| The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet. | |||
| - Ann Landers | |||
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| It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubt. | |||
| - Abraham Lincoln | |||
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| He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue. | |||
| - Jean Baptiste Molière | |||
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| If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. | |||
| - Austin O'Malley | |||
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| The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. | |||
| - Edgar Allan Poe | |||
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| It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. | |||
| - Karl Popper | |||
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| Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. | |||
| - Spanish Proverb | |||
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| Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. | |||
| - Robert Quillen | |||
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| Never miss a good chance to shut up. | |||
| - Will Rogers | |||
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| I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes. | |||
| - George Sanders | |||
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| The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. | |||
| - Adlai E. Stevenson | |||
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| People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. | |||
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut | |||
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| There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. | |||
| - Rebecca West | |||
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| If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it. | |||
| - Earl Wilson | |||