speakers

Speech is the small change of silence.

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.