A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Saint Augustine
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
Adolf Hitler
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald R. Ford
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Marilyn vos Savant
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
Edward W. Howe
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Voltaire
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White
As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.
Erich von Stroheim
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
Anne Rice
Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
Orson Pratt
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
James Mill
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
Stephen Sondheim
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