"Hear much; speak little."
- Bias
"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man."
- Colossians; IV:6.
"Blessed is the man who having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus
"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Speech is the index of the mind."
- Seneca
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
– Mark Twain
