He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.
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