Common Quote by Walter Bagehot

“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.”

— Walter Bagehot

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

— Jonathan Swift

Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however,…

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.

— Frances Rodman

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

— Tony Robbins

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we…

— Teju Cole

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

— Jack Benny

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action...

— Moshe Feldenkrais

Some people don't know when to stop talking.

— Monica Johnson

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

— Margaret Heffernan

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

— Helen Hayes

“Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is a way…

— Elizabeth Gilbert