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Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.
H. L. Phillips
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
C. C. Phelps
A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.
Somers White
Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.
R. S. White
Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
Dale Carnegie
Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Better never begin than never make an end.
George Herbert
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
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.
Gore Vidal
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Epictetus
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato The Elder
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
May Sarton
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Chinese Proverb
