Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
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.
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.
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.
I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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.
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
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