speaking quotes

Yes, Alec, it is I, your father, speaking.

- Alexander Melville Bell
  The first words spoken and heard on the world's first long- distance telephone call, from  Alexander Melville Bell in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, to his son  Alexander Graham Bell in nearby Paris,13 km away,10  Aug.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

- Caspar David Friedrich
Quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).

L'e  ducation de l'homme commence a'   sa naissance; avant de parler, avant que d'entendre, il s'instruit de  ja'  . A man's education begins when he is born; before speaking, before understanding, he is already teaching himself.

-JeanJacques Rousseau
  EŁ  mile ou de l'e  ducation, pt.1.

It's ill speaking between a fou man and a fasting.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Redgauntlet, letter11,'WanderingWillie'sTale'.