1. I married beneath me. All women do. --Lady Nancy Astor

2. I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much. --Newt Gingrich

3. The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. --Lady Reading

1. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. --Julius Henry Marx

2. The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. --Harry Emerson Fosdick

3. Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. --William Shakespeare

1. Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. --Mark Twain

2. On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. --Bhagavad Gita

3. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. --Edward Gibbon

1. The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. --Ambrose Bierce

2. Fortune favors the brave. --Virgil

3. Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. --

   Julius Henry Marx

1. Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress. --Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

2. When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. --Prince Otto

3. Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. --Bill Vaughan

1. Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. --Francis Bacon

2. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. --George Santayana

3. But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus. --Henry Louis

   Mencken

1. The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. --Winifred Holtby

2. Skill to do comes of doing. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. --Ronald Reagan

2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 1

1. The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. --Ayn Rand

2. In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. --Bertrand Russell

3. Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing. --Vince Lombardi

2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 2

1. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. --William Arthur Ward

2. Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court --Richard Milhous

   Nixon

3. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. --Marcel Proust

2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 3

1. Integrity has no need of rules. --Albert Camus

2. Every path has its puddle. --English Proverb

3. I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo, I'd have all my money back. --Jack Handey

2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 4

1. Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. --Scottish Proverb

2. Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune. --Unknown

3. The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies God in us. --Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker

   de Stal Stal

2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 5

1. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. --George Lucas

2. It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar. --Tao Le Ching

3. Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home, his face might burn up. --Jack Handey

2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 6

1. If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. --Pope John Paul I

2. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. --Pearl

   Sydenstricker Buck

3. It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. --Eric Hoffer

2021 NOF Q1 - Impromptu - Elim Round 1 - Speaker: 7

1. History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. --Abba Eban

2. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. --Aristotle

3. In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. --F. Scott Fitzgerald