A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
~ Ralph Archbold

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
~ Jim Beggs

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
~ Jack Benny

I didn't say the things I said.
~ Yogi Berra

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
~ Bible

We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen.
~ Bible

I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
~ Josh Billings

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
~ Dianna Booher

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.
~ Van Wyck Brooks

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
~ Thomas Carlyle

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
~ Dale Carnegie

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
~ Dale Carnegie

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
~ Dale Carnegie

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
~ Cato The Elder

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
~ William Ellery Channing

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
~ Lord Chesterfield

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
~ Charles Churchill

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
~ Winston Churchill