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"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." John Andrew Holmes 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two." Oscar Wilde 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Slang is the language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work." Carl Sandburg 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought." Author Unknown 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon 3.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way." Marcel Proust 4.461538461538462 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people." Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore." Euripides 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." Kurt Vonnegut 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I think 'no comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again." Winston Churchill 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day." Emily Dickinson 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." Booker T. Washington 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to." Hansell B. Duckett 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American." Author Unknown 4.571428571428571 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Ernest Hemingway 4.8 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." Samuel Goldwyn 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible." Frank Moore Colby 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer." Muhammad Ali 4.642857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Those who are preoccupied with 'making a statement' usually don't have any statements worth making." Thomas Sowell 4.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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