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"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
Clarence Darrow
"Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two."
Oscar Wilde
"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."
John Andrew Holmes
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot
"Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer."
Muhammad Ali
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Plato
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
Elbert Hubbard
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
Mother Teresa
"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
"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
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
Martin Farquhar Tupper
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit."
Mel Brooks
"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
Calvin Coolidge
"I have never been hurt by what I have not said."
Calvin Coolidge
"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
Frank Moore Colby
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
Emily Dickinson
"Slang is the language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work."
Carl Sandburg
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