Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.
George W. Bush

Silence is safer than speech.
Epictetus

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.
Emo Philips

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. Nixon

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Eminem

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

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
Adam Sandler

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Adam Sandler