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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.  

Men and Character

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
          (George Bernard Shaw)

Mothers

A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.  
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

For a wife take the daughter of a good mother .
                             (Thomas Fuller)

Lincoln said, All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother .

A mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she. ..remembers the infant smiles. ..the joyful shout of childhood, and the. ..promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.             (Washington Irving)

The hand that rocks the cradle. ..rules the world. (William Ross Wallace)
 

Music

If music be the food of love, play on.
                        (William Shakespeare)

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast.
                        (William Congreve)

Police

A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
                                        (W. S. Gilbert)

Sailing and the Sea

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.   (John Masefield)


They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, see the works of the Lord, and his wonder in the deep. For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves. Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble and he brings them out of their distress. He makes the storm calm, so that the waves are still. Then they are glad because they are quiet, and he brings them into their desired haven. (Psalm 107)

Secretary

A secretary must think like a man, ttt like a lady, look like a girl and work like a dog.
 

Speeches

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
                     (Mark Twain)

You ' d scarcely expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage
And if I chance to fall below
Don't view me with a critic's eye But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
       (David Everett -adapted)

Teaching

History teaches us that history teaches us nothing
He who can does; He who cannot teaches.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler, and less trouble.                   (Mark Twain)

Telegrams

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters; he sends telegrams.
                       (Anton Checkhov)

Television

Television is the third parent. (Buckminster Fuller)

Travel

I know where I'm going and I know who's going with me           (Anon)

Welcome and Friendship  This land is your land
                            (Woody Guthrie)


Whither thou goest I will go.
            (Book of Ruth, Old Testament)

Winter

Now is the winter of our discontent. ..
                   (William Shakespeare)

Wives

Merry wives of Windsor .
 (William Shakespeare)

Women

The great question which I have never been able to answer is, 'What does a woman want?'