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)

    Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us, I am almost astonished that there are so many industrious and ambitious ones to be found; although I acknowledge, with extreme sorrow, that there are some who never were and never will be serviceable to society. And have you not a similar class among yourselves?
    Maria Stewart (1803–1879)

    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)