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.
Friendship
No man is useless while he has
a friend.
(Robert Louis Stevenson)
One man in a thousand,
Solomon says,
Will stick more close than a brother .
But the thousandth Man will stand by your side
To the gallows-foot -and after!
(Rudyard Kipling)
A faithful friend is the
medicine of life.
(Ecclesiasticus)
Happiness consists not in the
multitude of friends but in their worth and choice. (Ben Jonson)
(The only way) to have a friend
is to be one.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)