Free Speech Carries With It Some Freedom To Listen.
- Bob Marley
I Do Not Speak To Thee In Drink But In Tears, Not In Pleasure But In Passion, Not In Words Only, But In Woes Also.
- William Shakespeare
Be It Art Or Hap, He Hath Spoken True.
Do Not Fight Verbosity With Words: Speech Is Given To All, Intelligence To Few.
- Moralia
Talkers Are No Good Doers; Be Assur’d We Come To Use Our Hands And Not Our Tongues.
Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit.
In Anger We Should Refrain Both From Speech And Action.
- Pythagoras
Today’s Public Figures Can No Longer Write Their Own Speeches Or Books, And There Is Some Evidence That They Can’t Read Them Either.
- Gore Vidal
Where The Speech Is Corrupted, The Mind Is Also.
- Seneca
Though Thou Speak’st Truth, Methink Thou Speak’st Not Well.
If Nobody Spoke Unless He Had Something To Say, The Human Race Would Very Soon Lose The Use Of Speech.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Readiness Of Speech Is Often Inability To Hold The Tongue.
- Jean Baptiste Rousseau
Let Thy Speech Be Short, Comprehending Much In A Few Words.
- Aprocrypha
Speech Is Human, Silence Is Divine, Yet Also Brutish And Dead: Therefore We Must Learn Both Arts.
- Thomas Carlyle
Tears At Times Have All The Weight Of Speech.
- Ovid
How Absolute The Knave Is! We Must Speak By The Card, Or Equivocation Will Undo Us.
Men Of Few Words Are The Best Men.
What This Country Needs Is More Free Speech Worth Listening To.
- Hansell B. Duckett
Thought Is The Fountain Of Speech.
- Chrysippus
Be Check’d For Silence, But Never Tax’d For Speech.
Speech Is The Mirror Of The Mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est)
I Do Know Of These That… Only Are Reputed Wise For Saying Nothing.
Much Speech Is One Thing, Well-Timed Speech Is Another.
- Sophocles
In A Free State There Should Be Freedom Of Speech And Thought.
- Tiberius
The First Amendment Is Often Inconvenient. But That Is Besides The Point. Inconvenience Does Not Absolve The Government Of Its Obligation To Tolerate Speech.
- Justice Anthony Kennedy
Great Wisdom Is Generous; Petty Wisdom Is Contentious. Great Speech Is Impassioned, Small Speech Cantankerous.
- Chuang-tzu
Weighest Thy Words Before Thou Givest Them Breath.
Speech Is A Mirror Of The Soul: As A Man Speaks, So Is He.
- Publilius Syrus
Look Wise, Say Nothing, And Grunt. Speech Was Given To Conceal Thought.
- Sir William Osler
Well-Timed Silence Hath More Eloquence Than Speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Where There Is A Great Deal Of Free Speech There Is Always A Certain Amount Of Foolish Speech.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Be A Craftsman In Speech That Thou Mayest Be Strong, For The Strength Of One Is The Tongue, And Speech Is Mightier Than All Fighting.
- Maxims of Ptahhotep
Discretion In Speech Is More Than Eloquence.
- Sir Francis Bacon
It Is A Great Thing To Know The Season For Speech And The Season For Silence.
The Habit Of Common And Continuous Speech Is A Symptom Of Mental Deficiency.
- Walter Bagehot
I Have Often Regretted My Speech, Never My Silence.
- Xenocrates
It Usually Takes More Than Three Weeks To Prepare A Good Impromptu Speech.
- Mark Twain
All Speech Is Vain And Empty Unless It Be Accompanied By Action.
- Demosthenes
Things Are Often Spoke And Seldom Meant.
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