Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae West

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
Glenn Beck

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.
Sigmund Freud

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

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

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
Voltaire

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
Jane Austen

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower