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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
-Arabic Proverb
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To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
-Chinese Proverb
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He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
-Italian Proverb
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
-Proverb
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
-Proverb
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He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.
-Proverb
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A good speaker makes a good liar.
-Proverb
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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
-Proverb
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
-Proverb
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Speak when you are spoken to.
-Proverb
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
-Proverb
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The less people think the more they talk.
-Proverb
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Speak little and to the purpose.
-Proverb
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
-Proverb
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A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
-Ralph Archbold
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What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
-Jim Beggs
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
-Jack Benny
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I didn't say the things I said.
-Yogi Berra
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We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
-Bible
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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
-Josh Billings
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If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
-Dianna Booher
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A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.
-Van Wyck Brooks
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Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.
-George Carlin
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
-Thomas Carlyle
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
-Dale Carnegie
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Books about Speeches (oratory)
