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“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.”

Ifs Speak Lines Player Stage Praying Speech Mouths Towns Tongue Spokes I Pray Whirlwind Theatre Acting

Author:William Shakespeare

“The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.”

Trying Humans Persons Might Eye Found Lost Known Subjects Human Nature Needed Kissing Speech Mouths Areas Complexes Edges Noses Flats Vehicle Curves Folds Chins Nuance Portraiture Lost And Found

Author:Robert Genn

“Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.”

Should Humans Spirit Poor Powerful Wonderful Proud Creatures Speech Mouths Devil Mere Driven Proceeding

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.”

Speech Mouths Pebbles Inarticulate Pronunciation Stammering

Author:Plutarch

“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source: Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures

“Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.”

Time Lost Numbers Speech Mouths Speakers Marble

Author:Brooks Hays

“Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.”

Men Real Soul Secret Blood Speech Mouths Communicate Real Life Invisible Thanks Chiefs Sanctuary Inner Life Converses

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.”

Ought Speech Members Mouths Congress

Author:Evan Esar

“Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.”

Ifs Doe Body Evil Brother Speech Mouths Fishes Profit Neighbor Flesh Bites Speakers Brothers And Sisters Disgraceful Fowl

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.”

Lying Speech Mouths Blessed Instruments Commandments Idle Truth Love

Author:Ephrem the Syrian

“Hillary Clinton trashes the banks every time she opens her mouth, and yet she made $21 million in two years making speeches to those very banks that she trashes every day.”

Years Made Two Millions Speech Mouths Clinton Two Years Trash

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”

World Way Energy Discipline Speech Mouths Bliss Serenity Filling Exhausting Preventing Spilling Rupture

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims