Speaker 1

1.       “It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.” Thomas Babington Macaulay.

2.       Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.    Walter Winchell.

3.       Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.  Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 2

1.       All my possessions for a moment of time. Elizabeth I

2.       The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.    Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)

3.       That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.   L. M. Montgomery

Speaker 3

1.       Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.  Henry Ward Beecher

2.       Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. John Kord Lageman

3.       In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?  Kanye West

Speaker 4

1.       Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.    Lois McMaster Bujold

2.       What's another word for Thesaurus.  Steven Wright

3.       Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.    Joseph Wood Krutch

Speaker 5

1.       To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.  Nancy Friday

2.       I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.  Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

3.       MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's. Doug Ferrari

Speaker 6

1.       When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.  W. Somerset Maugham

2.       Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.  Bill Gates

3.       Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.  Sydney Smith

Speaker 1

1.       To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

2.       Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.  Lois McMaster Bujold

3.       Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.  Theophrastus

Speaker 2

1.       When anger rises, think of the consequences.  Confucius

2.       A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.  David Coblitz

3.       Put up with it and you will get more of it.   Lynne Deal

Speaker 3

1.       A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.    George Bernard Shaw

2.       The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.  Joseph Conrad

3.       After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.   De la Lastra's Corollary

Speaker 4

1. The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.    R. Stevens

2. Adventure is just bad planning.  Roald Amundsen

3. No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.  Dr. Joyce Brothers

Speaker 5

1.       No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.  Tom Thompson

2.       The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.  Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

3.       Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' Sue Halpern

Speaker 6

1.       Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.  Italian Proverb

2.       Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.  Joey Bishop

3.       The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.  Charlotte-Catherine

Speaker 1

1.       Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.  Simeon Strunsk

2.       The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.  Flip Wilson

3.       In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.  Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)

Speaker 2

1.       If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.  Benjamin Franklin

2.       This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you’re doing, or it comes out flat. You can’t fake your way through this.   Gordon Atkinson

3.       Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.  Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Speaker 3

1.       Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.  Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)

2.        An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.  Shakti Gawain

3.       Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.   Hugh Macleod

Speaker 4

1.       Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.  Jim Morrison

2.       I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.  Payne Stewart

3.       First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.  Martin Myers

Speaker 5

1.       Of those who say nothing, few are silent.   Thomas Neill

2.       The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.  Rita Mae Brown

3.       A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.  Dutch Proverb

Speaker 6

1.       All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.  Unknown

2.        Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

3.       Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.   Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)

Speaker 7

1.       We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.  Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

2.       Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.  Andre Gide

3.       By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.    Charles Wadsworth