Balance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

— Demosthenes

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

— Sanford Meisner

Who talks much, must talk in vain.

— John Gay

“If all that you’re doing is going off at the mouth, a pound of words won’t make an ounce of sense.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as…

— Thomas Carlyle

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough,…

— Walt Whitman

I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says it. And…

— Benjamin Carson

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so…

— John Steinbeck

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

— Patricia Briggs

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a…

— Dan Quayle

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

— Wislawa Szymborska