speaking quotes

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

You can stroke people with words.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Writers speak stench.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

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.

Language is the dress of thought.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.