Woe unto you, when all men sha...

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of vou!

~Bible~

When you have spoken the word,...

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

~Arabian Proverbs ~

They think that they shall be ...

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

~Matthew~

The only happy talkers are dan...

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

~Cyril Connolly~

The hare-brained chatter of ir...

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

~Benjamin Disraeli~

The hare-brained chatter of ir...

The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.

~Benjamin Disraeli~

That which is repeated too oft...

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

~Nicolas Boileau~

Speeches that are measured by ...

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

~Thomas Jefferson~

Speech is the index of the min...

Speech is the index of the mind.

~Seneca~

Speech is the gift of all, but...

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

~Cato The Elder~

Speech is silvern, silence is ...

Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

~Thomas Carlyle~

Speech is civilization itself....

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

~Thomas Mann~

Speech has been given to man t...

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

~Charles Maurice De Talleyrand~

Speak after the manner of men....

Speak after the manner of men.

~Romans~

Rhetoric is the art of ruling ...

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

~Plato~

Out of the abundance of the he...

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

~Matthew~

Many great writers have been e...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

~Thornton Wilder~

He replies nothing but monosyl...

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

~Rabelais, Pantagruel~

He mouths a sentence as curs m...

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

~Charles Churchill
1731-1764, British Poet, Satirist~

Let no one be willing to speak...

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

~Propertius~