Speech Quotes - Page 26

• For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

  Dorothy Dix

  Heart, Men, People

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• It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

  Francis Bacon

  Adversity, Prosperity, Good Things

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.306

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• Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Civilization, Silence, Contradiction

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• Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.

  John Locke

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Long

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• In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Hard Work

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• Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

  William Congreve

  Support, Cold, Language

  William Congreve (1752). “The old bachelor. The double-dealer. Love for love”, p.180

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• It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

  Richard Steele

  Pain, Giving, Quota

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.132

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• In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).

  Albert C. Barnes

  Christian, Blessing, Church

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• Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Funny, Men, Giving

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• Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

  Francis Bacon

  Wells, Chosen, Ought

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• By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

  Julian Huxley

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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• One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

  Bob Marley

  Pain, Fighting, Forever

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• The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

  Michael Moore

  Strong, Freedom, Clothes

  Michael Moore (2004). “Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!”

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• No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

  Daniel Webster

  Reality, Men, Preparation

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• Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspiration, Tact, Eloquence

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1871). “A harmony of the essays, etc. of Francis Bacon”, p.21

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• I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

  Gene Fowler

  World, Said, Sat

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• There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

  Lord Byron

  Plant, Traitor, Treason

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• When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

  Paul Goodman

  Serious, Censorship, Loud

  Growing Up Absurd ch. 2 (1960)

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• The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

  Voltaire

  Important, Free Speech

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• When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

  Luqman

  People, Silence, Proud

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• Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Men, Use, Injustice

  "Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763)". Dialogue by Voltaire, Dialogue XIV, 1766.

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• For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.

  Elizabeth George

  Mean, Modern Novel, Skills

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• There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

  Benjamin Constant

  Long, Doe, Said

  Benjamin Constant (1959). “Adolphe [translated from the French by”

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• The poetry of speech.

  Lord Byron

  Poetry

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.97, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, War

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