Baltasar Gracian Quote

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff....

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange...

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.