Speak Quotes

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
-Plato

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you."
-William Blake

"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Dr. Seuss

"Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak."
-Nikki Giovanni

"Liars when they speak the truth are not believed."
-Aristotle

"'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'"
-Sir Winston Churchill

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
-Mother Teresa

"Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of."
-Socrates

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that."
-Oscar Wilde

"He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak."
-Ausonius

"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
-Sir George Savile

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."
-Sir George Savile

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."
-William Shakespeare

"Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest."
-William Shakespeare

"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."
-William Shakespeare

"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. "
-Epictetus

"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening."
-Seneca

"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods."
-Seneca