Speech

"Le cœur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime."

"Speech is silvern, silence is golden."

"Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking."

"Sermo hominum mores et celat et indicat idem."

"He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone."

"Ipse dixit."

"Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit."

"Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt."

"But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge."

"Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech."

"Think all you speak; but speak not all you think: Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you sink: Lips never err, when she does keep the door."

"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish."

"That's a Blazing strange answer."

"Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress."

"I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me."

"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity."

"A series of congratulatory regrets."

"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."

"Miss not the discourse of the elders."

"Blessed is the man who having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

"Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech."

"When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.""

"Mir wird von alledem so dumm, Als ging 'mir ein Mühlrad im Kopf herum."

"Du sprichst ein grosses Wort gelassen aus."

"The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."

"All the heart was full of feeling: love had ripened into speech, Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach."

"Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings."

"In man speaks God."

"These authors do not avail themselves of the invention of letters for the purpose of conveying, but of concealing their ideas."

"I love to hear thine earnest voice, Wherever thou art hid. * * Thou say'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way."

"The flowering moments of the mind Drop half their petals in our speech."

"His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey."

"He spake, and into every heart his words Carried new strength and courage."

"He, from whose lips divine persuasion flows."

"For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts."

"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."

"And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words."

"Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio."

"I am a man of unclean lips."

"That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment."

"Speak gently! 'tis a little thing Dropp'd in the heart's deep well: The good, the joy, that it may bring Eternity shall tell."

"It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence."

"L'allégorie habite un palais diaphane."

"Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him; to promote commerce, and not betray it."

"In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it."

"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!"

"They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking."

"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

"Faire de la prose sans le savoir."

"Quand on se fait entendre, on parle toujours bien, Et tons vos beaux dictons ne servent de rien."