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Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are. – Rush Hour	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. – Niccolo Machiavelli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money. – John Updike	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent. – Andrew Alden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. – Wystan Hugh Auden	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept. – Carl Lotus Becker	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. – William John Bennett	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards) – Lizzy Gardiner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. – Saint Jerome	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves. – Saint Francis de Sales	added by anonymous 14 years ago
(Speaking about Satchel Paige's pitching)It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble. – Hack Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. – John Peter Zenger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. – Tom Blair	added by anonymous 14 years ago
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. – Cato the Elder	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Public speaking is very easy. – Dan Quayle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. – Dorothy Sarnoff	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Oysters speaking doesn''t give a pearl. – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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