Speech - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57364<![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57365<![CDATA[Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57366<![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57367<![CDATA[Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57359<![CDATA[Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57361<![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362<![CDATA[Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57363<![CDATA[Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57358<![CDATA[Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57354<![CDATA[Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57356<![CDATA[Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57350<![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57346<![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57347<![CDATA[Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57348<![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57349<![CDATA[Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57343<![CDATA[For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57344<![CDATA[He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57345<![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340<![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57341<![CDATA[Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57342<![CDATA[I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57339<![CDATA[Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57335<![CDATA[Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57336<![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57337<![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57338<![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57332<![CDATA[Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57333<![CDATA[But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57334<![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57328<![CDATA[Though I say't that should not say't. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57329<![CDATA[Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57330<![CDATA[Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57331<![CDATA[And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57327<![CDATA[Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57324<![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325<![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57326<![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57321<![CDATA[Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57322<![CDATA[Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57323<![CDATA[I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57319<![CDATA[It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57320<![CDATA[But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48041<![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47423<![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18377<![CDATA[According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11455<![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523