Generally Speaking

Famous quotes containing the words generally speaking, generally and/or speaking:

“Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“... to a specialist his specialty is the whole of everything and if his specialty is in good order and it generally is then everything must be succeeding.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do.... I am too far along in experience and years both for this business. I do not go into [it] with the zest of old times. Races, baseball, and politics are for the youngsters.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)