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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
Speakers and Speaking
Witherspoon

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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
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Tom Ogden

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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
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Herbert Gardner

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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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William Ellery Channing

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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Harold Pinter

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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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Dale Carnegie

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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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Winston Churchill

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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Marcus T. Cicero

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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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Will Rogers

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Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Speakers and Speaking
Bible

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Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
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Homer

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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
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Claudius

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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
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Winston Churchill

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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
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Adlai E. Stevenson

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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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Proverb

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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Proverb

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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Proverb

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Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.
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German Proverb

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Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
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Cullen Hightower

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Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
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John Wayne

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
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Oscar Wilde

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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Speakers and Speaking
Proverb

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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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Dale Carnegie

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun