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ADAPTING QUOTATIONS

The more you can relate your quotations to your audience and the people you are praising in your speech, the more interested and flattered they will feel. If the only quotation you can find is not very relevant or complimentary, adapt it.

Quotations  suitable for delivery in a speech.  

 

Marriage

Here's to marriage, that happy estate that resembles a pair of scissors: 'So joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who comes between them.'
                 (Sydney Smith )

Marriage is a bargain and somebody has to get the worst of a bargain.
                      (Helen Rowland)

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments.
        (William Shakespeare)

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
                  (George Bernard Shaw)

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
          (George Bernard Shaw)

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in; and those inside desperate to get out.                               (Montaigne)

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.                     (Jane Austen)

Second Marriage

To lose one husband is a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.                (Jane Austen)

The triumph of hope over experience.
                                    (Dr Samuel Johnson)

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have .loved at all.             (Alfred Lord Tennyson)


When I lost my wife every family in town offered me another.                     (Proverb)


I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.   (Oliver Goldsmith)

                                          
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager, that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on.
                                              (Henry Fielding)


And on her lover's arm she leant,
And round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went
In that new world which is the old.
                     (Alfred Lord Tennyson)


...speak of one that loved not wisely but too well; of one not easily jealous, but being wrong perplex'd in the extreme.  (William Shakespeare)

Medicine

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
                                              (Voltaire)

Doctors bury their mistakes. (Popular saying)

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. (Alexander the Great)


God heals and the doctor takes the fee.       (Benjamin Franklin)