Communication Skills

Silence is safer than speech. - Epictetus

Is there another word for synonym? - George Carlin

The eyes have one language everywhere. - George Herbert

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war. - Lindsey Graham

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. - Libby Larsen

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. - Mark Twain

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine

The 3 fastest means of communication: Twitter; Telephone; Tell a woman. - Unknown

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand

If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright

A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde

Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. - L.J. Peter

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization. - Sigmund Freud

If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. - Dr. Seuss

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown

Give me a few lines of a man's handwriting; that will be sufficient for me to get him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu

Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton

There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate. - Margaret Mead

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. - Frederick Douglass

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right. - A. A. Milne

All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action. - John Hancock Field

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people. - Reed Hastings

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon