I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.
Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!
I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
Speech is the small change of silence.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.