MORE THOUGHTS & FUNNIES ... for Wednesday: I said to my husband, Why dont you call out my name when were making love? He said, I dont want to wake you up! (Joan Rivers) A survey shows that the number one fear of people is public speaking. Number two is death. That means that at a funeral, the average person would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy (Jerry Seinfeld) When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees (Abraham Lincoln) I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I do mind their holding it up to their ears (James Sidgwick) I will be so brief I have already finished (Salvador Dali, entire speech) Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else (Lyndon B. Johnson) Winston Churchill devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches (E. E. Smith) In conclusion ... the phrase that wakes up the audience (Herbert Prochnow) A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself (Lisa Kirk) Theres nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when youre interrupting (Mark Twain) Ill not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say (Elizabeth Gaskell) He had occasional flashes of silence ... which make his conversations perfectly delightful (Sydney Smith) I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time & prevents arguments (Oscar Wilde) Although there exists many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet (Ernest Bramah) Better to keep your mouth shut & appear stupid than to open it, and remove all doubt (Mark Twain) Silence is not only golden, its seldom misquoted (Bob Monkhouse) He talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine, with your wife turning the pages (Barry Goldwater) Catch you tomorrow .................................................
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:16:20 +0000
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