Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is…

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

When a fool speaks,the wise man listens

— Ace Kid

The fool speaks when he has nothing to say.

— Vikrant Parsai

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

— Euripides

If a man speaks his mind in a forest, and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?

— Ken Robinson

“The man speaks Southern football, now shut up.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

— Anonymous

“And a man who speaks effectively through music is compelled to something more difficult than parliamentary eloquence.”

— George Eliot

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

— Plato

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

— Jean Kerr

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as…

— Anthony Trollope

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

— Irving Kristol

“In the land of Gibberish, the man who makes sense, the man who speaks clearly, clearly speaks nonsense.”

— Jarod Kintz

“That is how a man speaks. And that is why.”

— Naomi Alderman