I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not roc...
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
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.
Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.
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.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of...