It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove read more

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many read more

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less read more

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other read more

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.