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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.
You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
I end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.
Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.
Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.
It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk.
Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.
Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.
Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.
You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.
We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.
Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.