Quotes by Authors - Page 96

A speech that's full of sparkling wit will keep its hearer grinning provided its end is close to its beginning.
Anonymous
I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot."
Anonymous
After such an introduction I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say.
Evelyn Anderson
speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.
Jacob Braude
I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."
Wendy Morgan
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
Speeches are like steer horns - a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Evelyn Anderson
An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics] so let's just think of this as empty.
Anonymous
As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .
Judith Viorst
Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.
Anonymous
As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like crazy underneath."
Anonymous
If any of you are related to our main guest let me know so I can speak slowly.
Wendy Morgan
I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.
Melvin Helitzer
My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.
James Roosevelt
The number-one fear in life is public speaking and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm talent and wit. Unfortunately he couldn't be here tonight so instead . . .
Melvin Helitzer
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.
Christopher Morley
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
Rabindranath Tagore
Time is change transformation evolution.
Isaac L. Peretz
Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes.
Charles Dickens
Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.
John W. Lynch
Time is the dressing room for eternity.
Anonymous
Time is the tyrant of the body.
Anonymous
Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck
What runs through a person like water through a sieve.
Samuel Butler
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.
Michel de Montaigne
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
Anonymous
You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.
Phillip Hewett
Time is not a line but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
Time is the arbitrary division of eternity.
Anonymous
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
William Faulkner
Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
John Draper
The less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns one procrastinates one can do it when one will and therefore one seldom does it at all whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it and then they always find time enough to do it.
Lord Chesterfield
Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste.
Anonymous
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Chuck Yeager
The longest day is soon ended.
Pliny
Anyone can carry his burden however hard until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard for one day. Anyone can live sweetly patiently lovingly purely till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
Flannery O'Connor
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up what remains.
Marcel Proust
Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tyron Edwards
Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Elizabeth Bowen
Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either they keep you.
Dr. Frank Crane
Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Ralph W Sockman
That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.
T. L. Gayler
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about-enjoying things.
Julia Child
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun some joy some real satisfaction that day is a loss.
Anonymous
He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day ... needs to reorganize his life.
George Matthew Adams
Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.
Kathryn Murray
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
Friends I beg you do not shirk your daily task of indolence.
Don Marquis
Fat gives things flavor.
Julia Child
You have not lived a perfect day even though you have earned your money unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Ruth Smeltzer
When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Sydney Smith
That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.
Charles F. Deems