1. Correct speling is a Must. Speech is the small change of silence. - George Meredith I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin I will not down to posterity talking bad grammar. - Benjamin Disraeli I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Morley Bulldozing: Going to sleep during a political speech. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence. - Luqman Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. - Alphonse de Lamartine It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. - Thomas Carlyle A bore is one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. - Benjamin Desraeli Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. - Thomas Leonard We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. - Oscar Wilde My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life, and as soon as I done it. I seen it. - Carl Sandburg 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 Language is our meeting place, the sea we live in... it is the common ground of our humanity. - Toby Wolfe It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise, we do not believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran Although he tortures the English language, he has not yet succeeded in forcing it to reveal its meaning. - J B Morton The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless. - Unknown The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. - C S Lewis No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas see also Language Section Books Never Written Commas Save Lives Cyberbulbs Does A Double Positive Equal A Negative? Double Negative Education First Impressions Fluent Sarcasm I Like Cooking Little Johnny’s Beautiful Examples One Thousand Words Practice Safe Text Punctuation Matters |
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