Henry David Thoreau
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Criss Jami
So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
Kathy Griffin
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
Lao Tzu
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
Patricia Briggs
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
Ayn Rand
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
Baltasar Gracián
Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
Hermann Hesse
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
Criss Jami
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
George Clooney
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
Jacques Derrida
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
Henry David Thoreau
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
Patricia Briggs
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
Ayn Rand
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
Oliver Sacks


































