Speech

A picture paints a thousand words

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words

The language of friendship is not words but meanings

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

Where words fail, music speaks

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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.

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse

The human voice is the organ of the soul