A Quote by Cato the Elder

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Cato the Elder

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Good Good Man Man Orator Skilled Speaking

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Cato the Elder
Roman - Statesman
234 BC - 149 BC

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Plato

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He has no personal baggage. He's as handsome as they come. And he's a talented orator.

Jack Schlossberg

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

George McGovern

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

Leslie Stephen

It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.

Lady Gregory

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

Kapil Sibal

I realized I never played a character that was skilled at anything, or skilled at anything that I couldn't become skilled at.

Jonah Hill

One man is a splendid fighter -- a god has made him so -- one's a dancer, another skilled at lyre and song, and deep in the next man's chest farseeing Zeus plants the gift of judgment, good clear sense. And many reap the benefits of that treasure.

Homer

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

Charles Caleb Colton

High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.

Edward Conard

Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than among the most-skilled workers.

Edward Conard

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.