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More QUOTES supplied by JOHN JAY DALY
“Since we’re not going to get out of this life alive, it helps to get serious and learn my proven 4-point plan making it easy to ‘Humorize’ your life.” –- John Jay Daly (Plan is available FREE to event planners.)
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." …"Nothing so much needs reforming as other people's habits." … "The right word may be effective, but no
word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." – all above quotes are by Mark Twain
“Most business speeches are too long and too dull so my overarching goal as a speechwriter and coach is to shorten ‘em and inject appropriate, light-hearted humor.” -- John Jay Daly.
“When preparing speeches work to make the mundane memorable and the prosaic picturesque. It helps if you judiciously select apt quotes” – JJD
“A fella can observe a lot by just watching.” – Yogi Berra
That’ s the most unheard of thing I’ve ever heard of.” -- Sam Goldwyn
"If it weren't for STRESS I'd have no energy at all." -- Anonymous
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The measure of the man is what he does with power." -- Pittacus
"Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most." - Thucyclides
"George Washington was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power." -- Robert Frost
"A philosopher is an intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted." -- Alan Watts "The Way of Liberation," 1983.
"An intellectual is someone who doesn't know how to park a bike." -- Spiro T. Agnew
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." Harry S Truman (Senator and later President of US).
"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston S. Churchill.
“My half-century in business plus a lifetime of living in Washington, DC proves absolute immutability of my creation, i.e. ‘DALY’S LAW’ which states: “Everything takes longer and costs more.” -- -– John Jay Daly,
"A sense of humor helps us overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable." - Billy Graham
"All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." -- Robert Orben
“Want to hear quiet laugh? Tell God your long term plans? -- proverb JJD quotes in commenting on his late wife’s 10 year cruel battle w/ Alzheimer’s
Successful Dating: the art of making a direct hit with a near Miss. (quoted by JOHNJAY DALY when advising his 8 children & 11 grandchildren )
"In the good old days beer foamed and drinking water didn't." – Anon.
"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." -- Unknown
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest." -- J.G. Holland
"If you really want something you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce lottery numbers!" -- Homer Simpson
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -- Galileo Galilee
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a doorway for the human spirit." -- Helen Keller
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." -- Eric Hoffer
"The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen." -- Sarah Brown
"I would rather live e as if there is a G~d, and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't, and die to find out there is. " -- Anon
"I always know G~d won't give me more than I can handle but there are times I wish He didn't trust me quite so much." -- Anonymous
"Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car." -- Anonymous
"Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and start with the person nearest you."-- Mother Teresa
"When the ego dies, the soul awakes." -- Gandhi
"Opportunities look bigger going than coming." – Anon
"I have wondered what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress." -- Ronald Reagan
"An honest confession is good for the soul, but bad for the reputation."-- Henny Youngman
"Dyslexia means never having to say you're yrros. (sorry)" – Anonymous
"When our kings are in conflict with our constitution, we change our kings." -- Winston Churchill
"If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Mary's.' -- Anonymous
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In his presentation about ‘Humorizing Your Life’ John urges audiences to learn many quotations so the most apt ones can be used to illustrate a point or liven the conversation stream when the occasion
warrants. Contact John for his sources of useful quotations.
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