Talking Quotes

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

A man only curses because he doesn't know the words to express what is on his mind.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.