Would you persuade, speak of i...

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

~Benjamin Franklin~

Women prefer to talk in twos, ...

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

~Gilbert Keith Chesterton
British Author~

Winston [Churchill] has devote...

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

~F. E. Smith~

When you're arguing with a foo...

When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.

~Author Unknown~

When a man is asked to make a ...

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

~Gerald Ford~

When a man gets talking about ...

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

~Josh Billings~

Whatever is well said by anoth...

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

~Seneca~

What we say is important... fo...

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

~Jim Beggs ~

Well-timed silence hath more e...

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

~Martin Farquhar Tupper, ""Of Discretion,"" Proverbial Philosophy~

We speak that what we know and...

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.

~ Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism~

Two monologues do not make a d...

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

~Jeff Daly~

To speak and to speak well are...

To speak and to speak well are two things.  A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

~Ben Jonson~

To know how to say what others...

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.

~Elizabeth Charles~

To be able to ask a question c...

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

~John Ruskin~

Though old the thought and oft...

Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'tis his at last who says it best.

~James Russell Lowell~

There is no such thing as conv...

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

~Rebecca West (Cicily Maxwell Andrews), ""The Harsh Voice,"" There Is No Conversation, 1935~

The words you choose to say so...

The words you choose to say something are just as important as the decision to speak.

~Author Unknown~

The true genius shudders at in...

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

~Edgar Allan Poe~

The trouble with talking too f...

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

~Ann Landers~

The trouble with her is that s...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

~George Bernard Shaw~