Speeches & Quotations  

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again.  Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors. 
~Benjamin Franklin

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things. 
~Dorothy Parker

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. 
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave.  The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
~Dale Carnegie

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

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.
~John Andrew Holmes

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
~Adlai E. Stevenson

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