Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
H. L. Mencken

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
Henry Ward Beecher

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
Ambrose Bierce

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
Marlene Dietrich

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Paul Tillich

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Paul Tillich

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
Gertrude Stein

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.
Susan B. Anthony

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
Will Smith

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan